Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Scottish Proverb

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Jonson, Ben

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

14.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

19.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

20.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

21.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

22.

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.

23.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

24.

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

25.

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

Simplot, Jack

26.

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

Wanamaker, John

27.

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

Bonnie Friedman

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

31.

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

32.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

33.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

34.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

35.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

36.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

37.

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

Baltasar Gracian

38.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Spencer, Herbert

40.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

41.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

46.

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

Jef Mallett

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

50.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom