Motivational Quotes

Time

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Wells, H.G.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

10.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

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

13.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

14.

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

Levenson, Samuel

15.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

16.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

17.

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

Arthorne, John

18.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

19.

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

Wanamaker, John

20.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

21.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

23.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Jonson, Ben

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

27.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

28.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

29.

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

Plutarch

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.

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

Paul Klee

32.

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

Dane, Frank

33.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Townsend, Robert

36.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

37.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

38.

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

Buxton, Charles

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

41.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

42.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

43.

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

Bergman, Jack

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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.

48.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

49.

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

Orben, Robert

50.

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

Kennedy, John F.