Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

10.

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

11.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

12.

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

13.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

14.

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

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

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

Bonnie Friedman

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

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

22.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Levenson, Samuel

24.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

26.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

28.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

29.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

30.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

31.

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

Otway, Thomas

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

34.

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

Gissing, George Robert

35.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

36.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

37.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

38.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

39.

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

40.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

42.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

45.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

49.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

50.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French