Motivational Quotes

Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Proverb, Polish

2.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

3.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

6.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

11.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

12.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

14.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

16.

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

17.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

18.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

19.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

26.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

28.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

29.

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

Book, William Frederick

30.

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

31.

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

Maria Edgeworth

32.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

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

Greene, Graham

35.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

37.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

38.

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

39.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

42.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

44.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

45.

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

Scottish Proverb

46.

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

Bergman, Jack

47.

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