Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

3.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

4.

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

Ovid

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

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

Simplot, Jack

8.

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

9.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

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

Townsend, Robert

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

15.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

16.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

17.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

21.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

22.

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

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

26.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

27.

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

Bergman, Jack

28.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

29.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

30.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

31.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

32.

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

33.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

34.

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

Bixton, Charles

35.

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

Douglas, Norman

36.

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

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.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

39.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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

41.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

42.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Pitman

44.

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

Fleming, Ian

45.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

46.

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

47.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

48.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

49.

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