Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Time

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.

You love what you find time to do.

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

Field, Franklin

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bergman, Jack

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

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

11.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

12.

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

13.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

14.

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

Malcolm Forbes

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Orben, Robert

18.

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

Jonson, Ben

19.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

20.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

23.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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.

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

26.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

27.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

30.

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

31.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

John F. Kennedy

36.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Ovid

39.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

40.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

Lakein, Alan

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

46.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

47.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

48.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

49.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

50.

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