Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

5.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

6.

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

7.

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

Simplot, Jack

8.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

9.

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

Wanamaker, John

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

18.

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

Ovid

19.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Levenson, Samuel

23.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

29.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

30.

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

31.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

32.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

33.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

34.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

35.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

36.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

37.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

38.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

39.

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

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

44.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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.

48.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

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

Bonnie Friedman