Motivational Quotes

Time

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Douglas, Norman

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

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

14.

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

Zappa, Frank

15.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

18.

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

Maria Edgeworth

19.

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

Simplot, Jack

20.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

21.

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

22.

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

Blake, William

23.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

24.

You love what you find time to do.

25.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

26.

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

Fleming, Ian

27.

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

Buxton, Charles

28.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Orben, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

34.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Baltasar Gracian

36.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

37.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

40.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

41.

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.

42.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

43.

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

44.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

45.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

46.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

47.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

48.

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

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul