Motivational Quotes

Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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 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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Drucker, Peter F.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Mccullers, Carson

11.

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

12.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Bible

14.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

15.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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.

17.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

21.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

23.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

24.

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

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

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

27.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

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

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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.

Pericles

32.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

33.

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.

34.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

35.

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

Malcolm Forbes

36.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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.

40.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

41.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

42.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.