Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

3.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

4.

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

Bergman, Jack

5.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

6.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Berger, John

10.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

11.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

12.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

16.

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

17.

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

Fleming, Ian

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

20.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

21.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

22.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

24.

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

Baltasar Gracian

25.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

26.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

27.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

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

Cowley, Abraham

29.

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

30.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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.

32.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

34.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

35.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

36.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

37.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

40.

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

Paul Klee

41.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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

44.

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

Mccullers, Carson

45.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

46.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

47.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

48.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

49.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

50.

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