Motivational Quotes

Time

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Wilde, Oscar

2.

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

3.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

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

Brown, John Mason

5.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

6.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

7.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

11.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

12.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

13.

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

14.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

15.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

16.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

18.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

21.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

22.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

23.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

24.

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.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

27.

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

28.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

29.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

31.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

32.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Baltasar Gracian

34.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

35.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

36.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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.

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

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

43.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

44.

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

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

47.

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

48.

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

Wanamaker, John

49.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

50.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.