Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

2.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

3.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

4.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

5.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

6.

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

7.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

8.

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

Tracy, Brian

9.

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

10.

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

Douglas, Norman

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Taylor, James

13.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Scottish Proverb

15.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

16.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

17.

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

Cowley, Abraham

18.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

19.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

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

Berger, John

23.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

24.

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

25.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

30.

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

Bixton, Charles

31.

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

32.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Wanamaker, John

36.

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

Simplot, Jack

37.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

38.

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

Baltasar Gracian

39.

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

40.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

41.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Brown, John Mason

43.

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

Pitman

44.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

45.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

46.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Jef Mallett

49.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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