Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

3.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

5.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

7.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

8.

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

Proverb, Polish

9.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

11.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Mccullers, Carson

18.

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

Bible

19.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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.

21.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

22.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

23.

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.

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

28.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

29.

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

30.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

31.

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

Pitman

32.

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

Otway, Thomas

33.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

34.

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

Brown, John Mason

35.

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

Paz, Octavio

36.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

37.

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

38.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.