Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

2.

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

3.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

4.

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

5.

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

Bergman, Jack

6.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

7.

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

8.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

9.

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

Cowley, Abraham

10.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

11.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

12.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

13.

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

Gissing, George Robert

14.

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

Wanamaker, John

15.

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

Proverb, Polish

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

19.

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

20.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Wells, H.G.

22.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

23.

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

24.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

25.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

27.

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

28.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Pericles

30.

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

31.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

37.

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

Buxton, Charles

38.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

39.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

40.

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

41.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

42.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

45.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

46.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

47.

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.

48.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

49.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von