Motivational Quotes

Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

- Foote, Shelby

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

2.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

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

4.

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

5.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

6.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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.

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

9.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

12.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

15.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

16.

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

17.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

18.

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

19.

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

Greene, Graham

20.

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

21.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

22.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

23.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

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

Otway, Thomas

25.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

26.

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

Plutarch

27.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

Levenson, Samuel

31.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

36.

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

Berger, John

37.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

38.

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

Buxton, Charles

39.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

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.

41.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

43.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

44.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

45.

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

46.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

47.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Paul Klee

49.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.