Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

2.

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

Scottish Proverb

3.

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

4.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

5.

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

6.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

7.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

8.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

9.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

12.

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.

13.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

16.

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

Maria Edgeworth

17.

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

Mark Twain

18.

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

Levenson, Samuel

19.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

21.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

22.

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

23.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

24.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

25.

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

Bixton, Charles

26.

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.

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

32.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

33.

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

Bergman, Jack

34.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

36.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

37.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

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

Lakein, Alan

39.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

42.

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

43.

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

Ovid

44.

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

45.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

46.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

47.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

48.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb