Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Time

1.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

2.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

3.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

4.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

5.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

6.

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

Zappa, Frank

7.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

14.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

15.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

17.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

18.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

19.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

23.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

24.

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

Brown, John Mason

25.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

26.

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

Paz, Octavio

27.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

28.

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

29.

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

Berger, John

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

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

Buxton, Charles

32.

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

33.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

38.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

39.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

40.

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

41.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

43.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

44.

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

45.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

46.

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

Bergman, Jack

47.

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

48.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

50.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.