Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Brown, John Mason

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Gissing, George Robert

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

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

Simplot, Jack

11.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

12.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

15.

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

16.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

21.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

24.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

28.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

29.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Chanel, Coco

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

35.

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

Lakein, Alan

36.

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

37.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

38.

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

Bergman, Jack

39.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

40.

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

Malcolm Forbes

41.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

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

43.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

44.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

Arthorne, John

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

49.

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