Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Malcolm Forbes

2.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

7.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

9.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Murdock, Mike

11.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

12.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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.

14.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

15.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

17.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

18.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

19.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Ovid

21.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

22.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

23.

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

24.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

28.

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

Jef Mallett

29.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

32.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

33.

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

Frost, Robert

34.

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

35.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

38.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

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

Otway, Thomas

42.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

43.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

44.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

47.

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

Dane, Frank

48.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

49.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

50.

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