Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Otway, Thomas

3.

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

Lakein, Alan

4.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

5.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

6.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

7.

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

Spencer, Herbert

8.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

9.

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

10.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

11.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Jonson, Ben

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

15.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

16.

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

17.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

18.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

19.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

20.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

22.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

23.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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

Paz, Octavio

26.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

28.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

29.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

30.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

31.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

32.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

33.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

34.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

36.

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.

Howe, John

37.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

38.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

39.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

40.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

41.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

42.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

45.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

46.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

47.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

48.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

49.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

50.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.