Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

10.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

11.

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

Pericles

12.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

13.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

14.

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

15.

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

Tracy, Brian

16.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

17.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

19.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

20.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

22.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

23.

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

Wanamaker, John

24.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

27.

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

28.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

32.

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

33.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

34.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

35.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Levenson, Samuel

40.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

41.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

42.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

Greene, Graham

48.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

49.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.