Motivational Quotes

Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

5.

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

Ovid

6.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

7.

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

8.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

9.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

14.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

15.

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

Field, Franklin

16.

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

Wells, H.G.

17.

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

18.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

19.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

21.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

22.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

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

24.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

25.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

26.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

27.

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.

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

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

30.

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

Gissing, George Robert

31.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

32.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

33.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

34.

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

35.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

37.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

38.

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

Spencer, Herbert

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Marx, Groucho

48.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

49.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

50.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack