Motivational Quotes

Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Ovid

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

10.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

11.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

12.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

13.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

14.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

Wanamaker, John

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

26.

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

Dane, Frank

27.

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

28.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

29.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

32.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

37.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

38.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

41.

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

42.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

44.

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

Bergman, Jack

45.

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

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

Wells, H.G.

47.

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

48.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

49.

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

50.

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