Motivational Quotes

Time

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

- Qubein, Nido

Best Quotes about Time

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

Jef Mallett

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Plutarch

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Baltasar Gracian

10.

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

11.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

12.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

13.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

17.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

18.

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

19.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

22.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

27.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

34.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

35.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

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.

39.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

43.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

44.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

45.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Taylor, James

48.

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

Lakein, Alan

49.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

50.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby