Quotes about time

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

— Edward F. Halifax

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

— Lucille S. Harper

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

— George Herbert

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.

— Edward Hoagland

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

— Ralph Hodgson

Make a good use of the present.

— Horace

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

— Edgar Watson Howe

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.

— John Howe

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.

— Victor Hugo

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.

— Charles E. Hummel

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

— Thomas H. Huxley

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

— Lee Iacocca

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Ben Jonson

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

— Karen Kakascik

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— King Jr. Martin Luther

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Alan Lakein

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

— Alan Lakein

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

— Alan Lakein

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

— William Law

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.

— Ivy Lee

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.

— Max Lerner

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

— Samuel Levenson

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

— Abraham Lincoln

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

— P. W. Litchfield

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.

— John Longden

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

— Amy Lowell

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.

— Sir John Lubbock

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.

— Horace Mann

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

— Horace Mann

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.

— Wieder Marcia

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.

— Wieder Marcia

But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.

— Andrew Marvell

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

— Groucho Marx

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.

— Karl Marx

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

— Jeffery J. Mayer

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

— Carson Mccullers

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

— Robert J. Mckain

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

— Marshall Mcluhan

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

— Golda Meir

Time stays, we go.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Charles De Montesquieu

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

— Mike Murdock

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

— Robert Orben

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

— Thomas Otway

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

— Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

— Ovid

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

— Octavio Paz

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

— Pericles

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

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

— Pitman

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

— Plutarch

The longest day soon comes to an end.

— Proverb

Soon enough is well enough.

— Proverb

Now is the watchword of the wise.

— Proverb

Lost time is never found again.

— Proverb

It is later than you think.

— Chinese Proverb

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

— Chinese Proverb

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

— English Proverb

Time is the soul of business.

— English Proverb

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

— French Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

— French Proverb

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

— French Proverb

Why kill time when one can employ it.

— French Proverb

Monday is the key day of the week.

— Gaelic Proverb

The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

— German Proverb

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

— Polish Proverb

Time and I against any two.

— Spanish Proverb

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

— Bonnie Prudden

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

— Nido Qubein

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

— Edgar Quinet

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

— John Randolph

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

— Boardroom Reports

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.

— Charles Richards

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

— Anthony Robbins

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

— Will Rogers

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

— Jim Rohn

never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Harold Rosenberg

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

— Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

— Bertrand Russell

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

— Richard Ben Sapir

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Time is that in which all things pass away.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Delmore Schwartz

Time discovered truth.

— Seneca

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

— Seneca

And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

— William Shakespeare