Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Fleming, Ian

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Lakein, Alan

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cowley, Abraham

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Wanamaker, John

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

15.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

17.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

18.

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

Wells, H.G.

19.

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

Gissing, George Robert

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

22.

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

23.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

24.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

28.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

29.

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

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

32.

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

Bergman, Jack

33.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Brown, John Mason

36.

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

Baltasar Gracian

37.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

38.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

39.

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

40.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

46.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

48.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.