Motivational Quotes

Time

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Pitman

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

10.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

12.

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

13.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

14.

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

15.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

16.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

17.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

18.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

19.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

22.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

23.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

24.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

25.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

26.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

27.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

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

29.

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

Brown, John Mason

30.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Field, Franklin

33.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

34.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Maria Edgeworth

37.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

38.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

42.

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

43.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

44.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

45.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

46.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

47.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

48.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy