Motivational Quotes

Time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

2.

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

3.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

4.

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

5.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

6.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

7.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

8.

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

Bergman, Jack

9.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

15.

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

Otway, Thomas

16.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

17.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

18.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

21.

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

Gissing, George Robert

22.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

23.

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

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 the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

26.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

27.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

32.

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

Paz, Octavio

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

35.

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

Cowley, Abraham

36.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

37.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

39.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

40.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

41.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

42.

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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

46.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

48.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

50.

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

Frost, Robert