Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

2.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

3.

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

Bergman, Jack

4.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

6.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

7.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

8.

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

9.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

10.

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

11.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

12.

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

13.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

17.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

18.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

21.

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

Douglas, Norman

22.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

25.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

26.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

27.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

29.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

30.

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

Spencer, Herbert

31.

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

Maria Edgeworth

32.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

33.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

38.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

39.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

40.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

41.

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

Lakein, Alan

42.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

44.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

45.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

46.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

47.

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

Ovid

48.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur