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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

10.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

13.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

14.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

15.

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

16.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

17.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

18.

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.

19.

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

Gissing, George Robert

20.

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

21.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

22.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

24.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

25.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

28.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

31.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

32.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

35.

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

36.

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

Chanel, Coco

37.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Levenson, Samuel

40.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Douglas, Norman

42.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

43.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

44.

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

45.

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

Bergman, Jack

46.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

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

Proverb, Polish

48.

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

Jonson, Ben

49.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

50.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von