Motivational Quotes

Time

Make a good use of the present.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

2.

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

Berger, John

3.

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

Bixton, Charles

4.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

5.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

6.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

7.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

8.

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

Wells, H.G.

9.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

10.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

13.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

14.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

15.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

17.

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.

18.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

21.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

23.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

24.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

25.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

26.

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

Zappa, Frank

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

30.

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

31.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

37.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

38.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

39.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

40.

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

Greene, Graham

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Maria Edgeworth

44.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

45.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

46.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

48.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

49.

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

Proverb, Polish

50.

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

Townsend, Robert