Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

2.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

3.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

7.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

8.

You love what you find time to do.

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

11.

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Scottish Proverb

15.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

16.

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

17.

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

18.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

19.

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

Mccullers, Carson

20.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

21.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

22.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

23.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

24.

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.

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

26.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

27.

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

Lakein, Alan

28.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

29.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

30.

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

31.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

32.

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

Bonnie Friedman

33.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

36.

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

37.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Berger, John

39.

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

40.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

41.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

42.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

43.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

45.

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

46.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

47.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

48.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

49.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

50.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time