Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Time

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

10.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

11.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

12.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

16.

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

Bergman, Jack

17.

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

Pitman

18.

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

19.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

21.

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

22.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

23.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

24.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Proverb, Polish

27.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

28.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

29.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

30.

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

Maria Edgeworth

31.

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

Berger, John

32.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

33.

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

34.

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

35.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

36.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Townsend, Robert

40.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

47.

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.

48.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

49.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid