Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Arthorne, John

2.

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

Taylor, James

3.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

4.

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

Proverb, French

5.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

7.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

8.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

9.

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

Buxton, Charles

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

14.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

15.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

16.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

17.

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

Tracy, Brian

18.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

19.

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

Berger, John

20.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

23.

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

Murdock, Mike

24.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

25.

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

26.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

31.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

32.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

35.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

37.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

38.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

39.

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

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

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

Greene, Graham

43.

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

Brown, John Mason

44.

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

45.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

46.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch