Motivational Quotes

Time

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

- Simplot, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

3.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

4.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

5.

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

Buxton, Charles

6.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

7.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

8.

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

9.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

10.

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

Bible

11.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

14.

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

15.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

16.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

17.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

18.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

22.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

23.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Wanamaker, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

33.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Taylor, James

35.

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

Levenson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

39.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

40.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

41.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

42.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

44.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

45.

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

46.

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

Chanel, Coco

47.

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

Kennedy, John F.

48.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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