Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Fleming, Ian

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.

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.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ovid

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

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

12.

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

13.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

Paul Klee

17.

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

Pitman

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

Taylor, James

22.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

23.

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

Buxton, Charles

24.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

26.

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

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

29.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

30.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

33.

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

Paz, Octavio

34.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

38.

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.

39.

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

Gissing, George Robert

40.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

41.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

45.

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

46.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

47.

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

Proverb, English

48.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

49.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward