Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

2.

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

3.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

4.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

5.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

7.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

8.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

9.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

10.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

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

Malcolm Forbes

13.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

14.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

15.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

16.

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

Chanel, Coco

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

21.

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

22.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

23.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

24.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

26.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

27.

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.

28.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

31.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

33.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

34.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Arthorne, John

39.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

40.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

41.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

42.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

44.

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

45.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

46.

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

Spencer, Herbert

47.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

48.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

49.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas