Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Scottish Proverb

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Blake, William

10.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

11.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

17.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

19.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Otway, Thomas

21.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

23.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

24.

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

Jef Mallett

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

28.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

30.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

31.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

32.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

33.

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

Cowley, Abraham

34.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

35.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

36.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Dane, Frank

40.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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

42.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

49.

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

Lakein, Alan

50.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare