Motivational Quotes

Time

He that rises late must trot all day.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Berger, John

2.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

3.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

4.

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.

5.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

7.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Ovid

10.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

11.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

12.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

13.

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

Bonnie Friedman

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

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

22.

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

Ovid

23.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

29.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

30.

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

Simplot, Jack

31.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

32.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

33.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

35.

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

Marx, Groucho

36.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

37.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

38.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

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

40.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Townsend, Robert

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

45.

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

Wanamaker, John

46.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

48.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

49.

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

50.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William