Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Malcolm Forbes

2.

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

Arthorne, John

3.

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

Scottish Proverb

4.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

5.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

6.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

7.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

8.

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

9.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

10.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

11.

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

Orben, Robert

12.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

13.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

15.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

16.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

17.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

18.

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

19.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

20.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

30.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

31.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

34.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

37.

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

Field, Franklin

38.

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

39.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

40.

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.

41.

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

Wanamaker, John

42.

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

Bixton, Charles

43.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

44.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

45.

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

46.

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

Spencer, Herbert

47.

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

48.

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

Greene, Graham

49.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von