Motivational Quotes

Time

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

- Longden, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Bonnie Friedman

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

10.

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

Wells, H.G.

11.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

12.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Lakein, Alan

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Brown, John Mason

21.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

22.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

23.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

28.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

29.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

30.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

31.

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

Buxton, Charles

32.

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

33.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

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

Chanel, Coco

37.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

38.

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.

39.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

40.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

41.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

42.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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.

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

49.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

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