Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Simplot, Jack

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

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Paz, Octavio

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

John F. Kennedy

15.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

16.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

26.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

27.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

34.

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

35.

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

Blake, William

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.

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

Arthorne, John

38.

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

39.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

40.

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

41.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

42.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

43.

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

44.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

45.

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

46.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

48.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

49.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

50.

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