Great Quotes About Time

Posted on June 4th, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Great Time Quotes

Read through these great quotes. Find the one that you like the most and print it out and look at it often. I have a favorite…can you guess which one it is?

  • Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn
  • Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams
  • Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson. Unknown
  • Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. Unknown
  • Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Henry David Thoreau
  • Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. The Talmud
  • Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.  John Randolph
  • Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein
  • Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin
  • Time is the great physician. Benjamin Disraeli Endymion
  • Time is the wisest counsellor of all. Pericles
  • Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin
  • 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 Sandberg
  • Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. Harvey Mackay

Choose a quote or some idea about time that helps you ‘loosen up’ – and see if you can move closer to being ‘just whelmed’ instead of overwhelmed. 

And if your view of time is just one area that overwhelms you – and you would like to be ‘just whelmed,’ then you’re invited to join others (worldwide) who receive Meggin’s weekly emails (free!) at

**I Want to Be Just Whelmed (http://www.JustWhelmed.com)

If you would prefer quick, short weekly tips, then the following site is another place to find suggestions and other tools to support you in your quest for peaceful productivity:

**Top Ten Productivity Tips (http://www.TopTenProductivityTips.com)

(c) 2009 by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D., “The Ph.D. of Productivity”(tm). Through her company, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc., Meggin McIntosh changes what people know, feel, dream, and do. Sound interesting? It is!

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