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

You love what you find time to do.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

10.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Proverb, Polish

12.

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

Paz, Octavio

13.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

14.

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

15.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

16.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

18.

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

Spencer, Herbert

19.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

20.

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

21.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

26.

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

27.

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

Orben, Robert

28.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

29.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Maria Edgeworth

36.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

37.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

39.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

43.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

44.

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

Bergman, Jack

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Frost, Robert

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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.