Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

Rosenberg, Harold

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

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

Cowley, Abraham

12.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

13.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

14.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

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

Paz, Octavio

16.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

24.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

25.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

26.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

27.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

28.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

29.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

30.

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

Buxton, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

34.

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

35.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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

Plutarch

39.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

40.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

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

Mark Twain

42.

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

43.

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

Brown, John Mason

44.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

45.

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

John F. Kennedy

46.

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

Simplot, Jack

47.

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

Paul Klee

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

50.

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

Lakein, Alan