Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

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

Murdock, Mike

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Cowley, Abraham

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

William Shakespeare

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

10.

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

Paz, Octavio

11.

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

12.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

13.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

14.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Bonnie Friedman

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

21.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

22.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

28.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

32.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

33.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

37.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

38.

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

43.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

44.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

Wells, H.G.

46.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

47.

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

Otway, Thomas

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

49.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus