Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Pitman

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

11.

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

12.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

14.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

15.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

18.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

21.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

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.

23.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Mccullers, Carson

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

34.

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

Paz, Octavio

35.

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

Cowley, Abraham

36.

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

Tracy, Brian

37.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

38.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

39.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

40.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

43.

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

44.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

46.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

47.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.