Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

2.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

3.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

4.

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

Spencer, Herbert

5.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

6.

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

Arthorne, John

7.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

8.

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

9.

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

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

14.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

16.

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

17.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

18.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

19.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

20.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

22.

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

23.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

24.

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

Simplot, Jack

25.

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

26.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

27.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

29.

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

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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

Fleming, Ian

32.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

33.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

36.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

37.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

38.

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

Cowley, Abraham

39.

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

40.

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

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

Tracy, Brian

42.

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

43.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

44.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

46.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

47.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

48.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

49.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

50.

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