Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

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.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Brown, John Mason

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Fleming, Ian

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

13.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

18.

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

19.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

20.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

21.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

You love what you find time to do.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

27.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

28.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

31.

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

Paz, Octavio

32.

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

Paul Klee

33.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

34.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

35.

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

36.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

37.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

38.

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

Berger, John

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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

40.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

41.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Gissing, George Robert

45.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

John F. Kennedy

47.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

48.

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.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop