Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Time

1.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

2.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

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

4.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

Arthorne, John

6.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

7.

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

Bixton, Charles

8.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

9.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

10.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

11.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

12.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

15.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

17.

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

Scottish Proverb

18.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

19.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

You love what you find time to do.

21.

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

Lakein, Alan

22.

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

23.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

24.

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

Dane, Frank

25.

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

Greene, Graham

26.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

27.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

28.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

29.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

30.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Jef Mallett

32.

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

Townsend, Robert

33.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Proverb, Polish

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

John F. Kennedy

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

41.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

42.

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

43.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

44.

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

Paz, Octavio

45.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

47.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

48.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

49.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

50.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal