Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Time

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Polish

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Jef Mallett

15.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

16.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

17.

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

Cowley, Abraham

18.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

19.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

24.

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

25.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

26.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

27.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

28.

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

29.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

32.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

33.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

34.

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

Paz, Octavio

35.

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

Plutarch

36.

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

Brown, John Mason

37.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Arthorne, John

43.

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.

44.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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.

46.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

47.

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

48.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare