Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

You love what you find time to do.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Kennedy, John F.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

10.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

13.

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

Jonson, Ben

14.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

17.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

21.

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.

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

Paz, Octavio

28.

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

Jef Mallett

29.

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

30.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Lakein, Alan

34.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

36.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

37.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

38.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

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

41.

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

Paul Klee

42.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

46.

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

47.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

48.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

49.

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

Baltasar Gracian

50.

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