Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Field, Franklin

2.

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

Marx, Groucho

3.

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

Spencer, Herbert

4.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

5.

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

6.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

7.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

8.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

9.

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

Pitman

10.

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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

13.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

You love what you find time to do.

16.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

19.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

20.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

21.

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

Baltasar Gracian

22.

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

Jonson, Ben

23.

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

24.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

25.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

26.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

27.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

31.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

32.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

33.

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

Berger, John

34.

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

Simplot, Jack

35.

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

36.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

37.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

38.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

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

Levenson, Samuel

41.

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

John F. Kennedy

42.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

43.

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

44.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

45.

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

Murdock, Mike

46.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Malcolm Forbes

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

50.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom