Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

10.

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

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

John F. Kennedy

14.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

15.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

17.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

20.

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

Douglas, Norman

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

24.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

25.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

28.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

30.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

32.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

33.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

34.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

35.

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

Maria Edgeworth

36.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

37.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Plutarch

39.

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

Bergman, Jack

40.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

41.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

44.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

45.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

46.

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.

47.

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

Gissing, George Robert

48.

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

49.

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

50.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David