Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

2.

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

Lakein, Alan

3.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

4.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

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

Scottish Proverb

7.

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.

8.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

9.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

10.

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

Arthorne, John

11.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

12.

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

Zappa, Frank

13.

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

Jef Mallett

14.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Dane, Frank

19.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

23.

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

Mark Twain

24.

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

27.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

28.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

29.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

31.

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

Douglas, Norman

32.

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

35.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Levenson, Samuel

38.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

39.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

43.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

44.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Bixton, Charles

46.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, English

49.

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

Buxton, Charles

50.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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