Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

10.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

12.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

13.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

14.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Maria Edgeworth

16.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

18.

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

19.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

20.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

23.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

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.

29.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

30.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

33.

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

34.

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

Dane, Frank

35.

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

Wells, H.G.

36.

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

37.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

40.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

41.

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

Murdock, Mike

42.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

43.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

44.

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

Simplot, Jack

45.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

46.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

47.

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

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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

49.

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

John F. Kennedy

50.

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