Motivational Quotes

Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

2.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

3.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

7.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

8.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

9.

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

10.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

11.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

12.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

14.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

15.

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

Orben, Robert

16.

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

Tracy, Brian

17.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

18.

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

Taylor, James

19.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Arthorne, John

24.

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

Fleming, Ian

25.

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

26.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

27.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

29.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

30.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

33.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

Pitman

35.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

41.

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

Murdock, Mike

42.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

43.

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

44.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

46.

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

47.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

48.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

49.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David