Motivational Quotes

Time

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

- Warren, Christine

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

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

Berger, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Buxton, Charles

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

15.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

16.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

21.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

23.

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

24.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

25.

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.

26.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

27.

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

Gissing, George Robert

28.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

29.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

30.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

31.

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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

35.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

38.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

39.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

43.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

44.

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

45.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

46.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

47.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

48.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas