Motivational Quotes

Time

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

2.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

3.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

4.

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

Bonnie Friedman

5.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

6.

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

Proverb, English

7.

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

8.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

9.

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

Wells, H.G.

10.

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

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

17.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

18.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

19.

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

Maria Edgeworth

20.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

23.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

24.

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.

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Paul Klee

29.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Bible

31.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

35.

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

Levenson, Samuel

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

38.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

39.

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

40.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

41.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

42.

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

Spencer, Herbert

43.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

44.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

45.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

46.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

47.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

48.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

49.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

50.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.