Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

2.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

3.

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

4.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

5.

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

6.

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

Bixton, Charles

7.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

8.

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

9.

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

Chanel, Coco

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

16.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

17.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

18.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

19.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

20.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

21.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

22.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

23.

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.

24.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

25.

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

26.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

28.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

29.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

30.

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

31.

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

32.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Blake, William

37.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

38.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

39.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Plutarch

42.

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

Arthorne, John

43.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

44.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

45.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

46.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

47.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

48.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

49.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.