Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

3.

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

Chanel, Coco

4.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

5.

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

Spencer, Herbert

6.

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

Bonnie Friedman

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

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

Taylor, James

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

15.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

16.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

17.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

18.

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

19.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

20.

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

John F. Kennedy

21.

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

Greene, Graham

22.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

23.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

24.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

26.

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

27.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

28.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

29.

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

Bergman, Jack

30.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

32.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

Lakein, Alan

34.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

35.

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

36.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

37.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

41.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

42.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

45.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

46.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

47.

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

Dane, Frank

48.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

49.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

50.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English