Motivational Quotes

Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

15.

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

Baltasar Gracian

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

21.

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

22.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

23.

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

Douglas, Norman

24.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

28.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

32.

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

33.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

34.

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

Fleming, Ian

35.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

36.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

37.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

41.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

47.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

48.

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

Taylor, James

49.

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

50.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec