Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Brown, John Mason

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Arthorne, John

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

Bonnie Friedman

10.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

13.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

14.

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

15.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

16.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

17.

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

Field, Franklin

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

20.

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

21.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

22.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

23.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

24.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

25.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

26.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

28.

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

Maria Edgeworth

29.

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

30.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

31.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

32.

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

Simplot, Jack

33.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

35.

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

Plutarch

36.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

37.

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

Chanel, Coco

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

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

Jef Mallett

40.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

41.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

42.

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

43.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

44.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Lakein, Alan

46.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

47.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

48.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

49.

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

50.

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