Motivational Quotes

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

Best Quotes about Time

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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.

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

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

10.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

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

17.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

18.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

19.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

22.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

24.

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

Scottish Proverb

25.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

26.

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

Jef Mallett

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Tracy, Brian

30.

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

31.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

32.

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

33.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Book, William Frederick

37.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

42.

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

Berger, John

43.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

44.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

45.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Plutarch

48.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

49.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith