Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

2.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

5.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

6.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

7.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

8.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

9.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

10.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

11.

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

Bonnie Friedman

12.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

Kennedy, John F.

14.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

15.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

16.

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

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.

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

Chanel, Coco

19.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

20.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

22.

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

John F. Kennedy

23.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

24.

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.

25.

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

Pitman

26.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

27.

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

28.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

29.

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

30.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

31.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

33.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

34.

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

Book, William Frederick

35.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

36.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

37.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

38.

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

Lakein, Alan

39.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

40.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

42.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

43.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

44.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

45.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

46.

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.

47.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

48.

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

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther