Motivational Quotes

Time

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

- Ballard, J. G.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

2.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

3.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

4.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

5.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

8.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

9.

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.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

11.

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

12.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

13.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

14.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Levenson, Samuel

16.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

17.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

21.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

23.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

24.

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.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

Proverb, Polish

26.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

27.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

31.

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

Lakein, Alan

32.

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

34.

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

35.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

36.

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

Scottish Proverb

37.

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

Spencer, Herbert

38.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

45.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

46.

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

47.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare