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

1.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

2.

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

Fleming, Ian

3.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

4.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

5.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

6.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

7.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

8.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

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

Baltasar Gracian

14.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

17.

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

18.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

19.

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

20.

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

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

22.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

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

Murdock, Mike

25.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

26.

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

Bergman, Jack

27.

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

Paul Klee

28.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

29.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

30.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

31.

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

32.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Cowley, Abraham

37.

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

Ovid

38.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

39.

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

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.

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

42.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

48.

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

49.

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

Pitman

50.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor