Motivational Quotes

Time

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

- Longden, John

Best Quotes about Time

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bonnie Friedman

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Halifax, Edward F.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Maria Edgeworth

14.

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

Taylor, James

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

17.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

20.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

23.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

27.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

28.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

29.

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

Bixton, Charles

30.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

31.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

32.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

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

Wanamaker, John

34.

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

35.

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

Brown, John Mason

36.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

39.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Wells, H.G.

42.

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

43.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

Spencer, Herbert

45.

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

John F. Kennedy

46.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

47.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

48.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

50.

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