Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

2.

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

Ovid

3.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

4.

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

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

7.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

8.

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

9.

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

Wanamaker, John

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

Zappa, Frank

13.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

14.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

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

Bergman, Jack

17.

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

Blake, William

18.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

20.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

21.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

22.

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

23.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

24.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

25.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

26.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

27.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

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.

30.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

Ovid

32.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

34.

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

Berger, John

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

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

Cowley, Abraham

38.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

43.

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

Mccullers, Carson

44.

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

45.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

48.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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