Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Spencer, Herbert

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

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

12.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

13.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

14.

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

15.

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

Orben, Robert

16.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

17.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

18.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

22.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

26.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

27.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

28.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

29.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

30.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

31.

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

32.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

33.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

34.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

35.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

36.

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

Berger, John

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

38.

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

Taylor, James

39.

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

40.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

42.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

45.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

47.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Don't serve time, make time serve you