Motivational Quotes

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.

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

3.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Bonnie Friedman

5.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

6.

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

Paz, Octavio

7.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

8.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

9.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

10.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Berger, John

15.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

18.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

20.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

24.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

25.

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

Orben, Robert

26.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

27.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

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

Arthorne, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bergman, Jack

32.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

37.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

38.

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

39.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Wanamaker, John

42.

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

43.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

44.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

45.

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

Plutarch

46.

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

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

49.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

50.

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