Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Maria Edgeworth

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Bergman, Jack

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Field, Franklin

11.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

12.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

15.

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

Paul Klee

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

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

18.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

19.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

28.

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

Cowley, Abraham

29.

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

30.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

31.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

32.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

34.

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

Ovid

35.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

Dickens, Charles

38.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

39.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Paz, Octavio

45.

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

Frost, Robert

46.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

48.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

49.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John