Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

3.

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

4.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

5.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

6.

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

Berger, John

7.

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

8.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

Baltasar Gracian

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Jef Mallett

15.

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

Lakein, Alan

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

18.

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

Cowley, Abraham

19.

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

Dane, Frank

20.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

21.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

25.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

27.

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

28.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

31.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

32.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Proverb, English

34.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

35.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

37.

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

38.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

39.

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

Field, Franklin

40.

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

Wanamaker, John

41.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

44.

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

Buxton, Charles

45.

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

46.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

47.

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

Pitman

48.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

49.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.