Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Ovid

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

10.

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

11.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

12.

You love what you find time to do.

13.

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

14.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

15.

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.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

19.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

20.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

22.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

26.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

31.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

33.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Arthorne, John

36.

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

37.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

38.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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

40.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

44.

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.

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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

46.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

49.

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

Jef Mallett

50.

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

Bixton, Charles