Motivational Quotes

Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Townsend, Robert

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Maria Edgeworth

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Orben, Robert

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

13.

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

14.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

15.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

16.

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

Proverb, Polish

17.

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.

18.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Murdock, Mike

20.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

21.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

22.

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

Fleming, Ian

23.

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

24.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

25.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Malcolm Forbes

27.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

28.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

30.

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

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

35.

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

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

38.

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

39.

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

John F. Kennedy

40.

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

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

45.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

46.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

47.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Simplot, Jack