Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

2.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

3.

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

4.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

5.

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

6.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

7.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

8.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

9.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

10.

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

11.

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

Fleming, Ian

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

16.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

21.

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

Ovid

22.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

23.

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

24.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

27.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

28.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

29.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

32.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

33.

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

34.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

35.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

36.

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

37.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

38.

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

Zappa, Frank

39.

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

Brown, John Mason

40.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

41.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

42.

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

Bonnie Friedman

43.

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

Ovid

44.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

45.

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

Lakein, Alan

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

47.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

48.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

49.

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

50.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.