Motivational Quotes

Time

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Plutarch

2.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

3.

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

4.

You love what you find time to do.

5.

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

6.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

7.

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

8.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

9.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

10.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

11.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

16.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Levenson, Samuel

18.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

19.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

20.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Scottish Proverb

23.

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

24.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

35.

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

36.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

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

40.

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

Pitman

41.

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

Arthorne, John

42.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

43.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Proverb, Polish

45.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

46.

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.

47.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

48.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

49.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

50.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare