Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Pitman

3.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

4.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

5.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

6.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

7.

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

Paz, Octavio

8.

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

9.

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

Fleming, Ian

10.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

11.

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

Wanamaker, John

12.

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

13.

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

Book, William Frederick

14.

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

15.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

20.

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

Buxton, Charles

21.

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

22.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

24.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Simplot, Jack

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

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

29.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

30.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

34.

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

35.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

36.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

37.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

38.

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

Malcolm Forbes

39.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

41.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

42.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

43.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

44.

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

Wells, H.G.

45.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

46.

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

Blake, William

47.

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

Frost, Robert

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

50.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.