Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

2.

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

Brown, John Mason

3.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

4.

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

Berger, John

5.

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

6.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

7.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

8.

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

John F. Kennedy

9.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

10.

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.

11.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

12.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

13.

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

Arthorne, John

14.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

15.

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

Lakein, Alan

16.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

17.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

18.

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

Murdock, Mike

19.

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

Buxton, Charles

20.

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

21.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

23.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

24.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

25.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

26.

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

Bonnie Friedman

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

31.

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

32.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

33.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

35.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

38.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

43.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

45.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

46.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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.

49.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

50.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare