Motivational Quotes

Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

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.

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.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Blake, William

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.

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

10.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Maria Edgeworth

13.

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

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

Buxton, Charles

16.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

17.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

19.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Paul Klee

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

23.

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

Malcolm Forbes

24.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

25.

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

26.

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

Paz, Octavio

27.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

28.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

29.

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

30.

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

Bergman, Jack

31.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

34.

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

Lakein, Alan

35.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

45.

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

Dane, Frank

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

48.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

50.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb