Motivational Quotes

Time

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

- Malcolm Forbes

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Cowley, Abraham

3.

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

Simplot, Jack

4.

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

5.

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

Ovid

6.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

7.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

8.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

9.

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

10.

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

Mark Twain

11.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

12.

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

13.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Field, Franklin

15.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

18.

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

19.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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.

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

23.

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

Pitman

24.

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

25.

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

26.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

27.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

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

Scottish Proverb

30.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

31.

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

32.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

35.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

36.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

37.

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

38.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

39.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

40.

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

41.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Maria Edgeworth

43.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

44.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.