Motivational Quotes

Time

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Taylor, James

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

10.

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.

11.

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

Fleming, Ian

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

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

Douglas, Norman

14.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

17.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

18.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

19.

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

20.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

21.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

22.

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

23.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

Orben, Robert

28.

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

Maria Edgeworth

29.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

30.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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

32.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

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

Gissing, George Robert

34.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

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

38.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

39.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

John F. Kennedy

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Mccullers, Carson

45.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

46.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

47.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

48.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

49.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

50.

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