Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Time

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

14.

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.

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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

16.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

17.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

21.

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

22.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

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

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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.

31.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

32.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

33.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

42.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

44.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

45.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

46.

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

Malcolm Forbes

47.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Orben, Robert