Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Arthorne, John

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

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

10.

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

11.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Douglas, Norman

17.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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.

22.

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

Levenson, Samuel

23.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

24.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

27.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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

Spencer, Herbert

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

31.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

32.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

33.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

34.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

35.

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

Bergman, Jack

36.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

37.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

38.

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

Orben, Robert

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

44.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

46.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

47.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

48.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

49.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

50.

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

Lakein, Alan