Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Best Quotes about Time

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

10.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

14.

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

15.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

19.

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

Cowley, Abraham

20.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

Greene, Graham

22.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

23.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

26.

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

27.

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.

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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.

29.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

30.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

Orben, Robert

33.

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

34.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

35.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

36.

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

37.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Paul Klee

40.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Maria Edgeworth

42.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

43.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

44.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

49.

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

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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