Motivational Quotes

Time

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

2.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

3.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

4.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

5.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

6.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

7.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

8.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

9.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

10.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

11.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

12.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

13.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

14.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

15.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

16.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

17.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

18.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

19.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

20.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

21.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

22.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

25.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

27.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

29.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

30.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

32.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

34.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

35.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

36.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

38.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

39.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

40.

You love what you find time to do.

41.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

42.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

43.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

44.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

45.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

46.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

47.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

48.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

49.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

50.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.