Motivational Quotes

Time

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Jonson, Ben

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Scottish Proverb

15.

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

Ovid

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

20.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

21.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

22.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

26.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

27.

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

Ovid

28.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

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

Baltasar Gracian

30.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Simplot, Jack

33.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

35.

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

36.

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

Wanamaker, John

37.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

40.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

42.

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

Maria Edgeworth

43.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

44.

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

Brown, John Mason

45.

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

46.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

47.

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

Proverb, English

48.

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.

49.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert