Motivational Quotes

Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

2.

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

3.

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

Douglas, Norman

4.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

5.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

6.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

7.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

8.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

You love what you find time to do.

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Pitman

12.

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

13.

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

Orben, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Paz, Octavio

17.

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

18.

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

Arthorne, John

19.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

20.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Bergman, Jack

24.

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

Malcolm Forbes

25.

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

26.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

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

28.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

29.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

30.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

31.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

32.

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.

33.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

34.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

37.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

38.

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

Maria Edgeworth

39.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

42.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

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

44.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

46.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

47.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French