Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

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

Blake, William

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

10.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

11.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

14.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

17.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Gissing, George Robert

19.

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

20.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

21.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

22.

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

23.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

24.

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

25.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

26.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

28.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

29.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

30.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

31.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

32.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

33.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

34.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

35.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

40.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

42.

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

Bixton, Charles

43.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

44.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

45.

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

Paz, Octavio

46.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

47.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

49.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

50.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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