Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

3.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

4.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

6.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

7.

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

Maria Edgeworth

8.

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

Townsend, Robert

9.

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

Otway, Thomas

10.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

11.

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

Buxton, Charles

12.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

14.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

15.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

22.

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

Ovid

23.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

27.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

29.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

30.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

31.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

32.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

35.

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

Wanamaker, John