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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Arthorne, John

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

Paz, Octavio

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Chanel, Coco

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

10.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

11.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

12.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

13.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

17.

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

18.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

19.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

21.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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.

25.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

26.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

27.

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

28.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

29.

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

Lakein, Alan

30.

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

Berger, John

31.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

34.

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

35.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

36.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

38.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

40.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

41.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

42.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

43.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

46.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

47.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

48.

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.

49.

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

Spencer, Herbert

50.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert