Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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.

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

Blake, William

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

Bergman, Jack

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

12.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

16.

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

Book, William Frederick

17.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

18.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

26.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

27.

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

28.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

30.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

31.

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

Pitman

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

36.

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

Malcolm Forbes

37.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

38.

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

Buxton, Charles

39.

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

40.

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.

Swatch

41.

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

Proverb, Polish

42.

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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

45.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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

49.

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

50.

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

Paul Klee