Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Dickens, Charles

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Scottish Proverb

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

10.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

15.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

16.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

18.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

21.

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

Arthorne, John

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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.

33.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Spencer, Herbert

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

41.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

42.

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

Lakein, Alan

43.

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

44.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

45.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Douglas, Norman

49.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

50.

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