Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Time

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Maria Edgeworth

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

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

Scottish Proverb

11.

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

Mark Twain

12.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Taylor, James

15.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

16.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

17.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

18.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

21.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

22.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

28.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

29.

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

30.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

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

Jef Mallett

33.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

34.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

35.

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

36.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

37.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

Dickens, Charles

42.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

45.

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.

Hugo, Victor

46.

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.

Qubein, Nido

47.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

48.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

49.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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