Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

One thing you can't recycle is wasted 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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Chanel, Coco

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

10.

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

Murdock, Mike

11.

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

12.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

13.

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

Mccullers, Carson

14.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

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

Arthorne, John

17.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

18.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Polish

22.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

23.

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

Lakein, Alan

24.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

28.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

29.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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

32.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

33.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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

35.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

38.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

39.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

40.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

41.

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

42.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

43.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

44.

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

Buxton, Charles

45.

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

46.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

50.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold