Motivational Quotes

Time

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

- Updegraff, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

17.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

21.

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

Pitman

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Taylor, James

24.

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

25.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

26.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Otway, Thomas

31.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

32.

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.

33.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

34.

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

35.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

37.

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

Lakein, Alan

38.

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

39.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

40.

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

41.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

42.

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

43.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

44.

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

John F. Kennedy

45.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

46.

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

47.

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

48.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank