Motivational Quotes

Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Dickens, Charles

2.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Ovid

5.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

6.

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

Cowley, Abraham

7.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

8.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

11.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

12.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

17.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

18.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

19.

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

20.

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

Chanel, Coco

21.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

25.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

26.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

35.

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

Otway, Thomas

36.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

43.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

47.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

48.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

49.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

50.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold