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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Orben, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

11.

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

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.

Lee, Ivy

13.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

16.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

17.

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.

Hoagland, Edward

18.

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

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

20.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

24.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

25.

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.

Mann, Horace

26.

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

Scottish Proverb

27.

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

28.

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.

Kakascik, Karen

29.

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!

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Mann, Horace

32.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

33.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

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

Wanamaker, John

35.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

38.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

39.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

40.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

44.

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

Greene, Graham

45.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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You love what you find time to do.

50.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec