Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

5.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

6.

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

7.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

8.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

9.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Taylor, James

13.

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

Levenson, Samuel

14.

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

15.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

16.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

23.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

25.

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

Mccullers, Carson

26.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Dane, Frank

29.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

30.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

31.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

32.

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

Bixton, Charles

33.

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

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

Spencer, Herbert

35.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

37.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

38.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

42.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

43.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

44.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

45.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

46.

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

Arthorne, John

47.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

49.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

50.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph