Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Blake, William

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

Plutarch

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

18.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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.

21.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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.

25.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Jef Mallett

27.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

28.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

29.

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

Arthorne, John

30.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

31.

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

32.

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

Spencer, Herbert

33.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

34.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

36.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

37.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

38.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

39.

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

Otway, Thomas

40.

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

Gissing, George Robert

41.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

46.

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

Chanel, Coco

47.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

48.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

49.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

50.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo