Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

- Eckhart, Meister

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jef Mallett

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Pitman

12.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

13.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

14.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

17.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Zappa, Frank

20.

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

Wells, H.G.

21.

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

Lakein, Alan

22.

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

23.

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

Townsend, Robert

24.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

25.

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

26.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

28.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

29.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

30.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

31.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Jonson, Ben

34.

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

Levenson, Samuel

35.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

38.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

39.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Bixton, Charles

43.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

44.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

45.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

46.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

47.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

48.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

49.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Huxley, Thomas H.