Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Proverb, English

2.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

3.

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

4.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

5.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

6.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

7.

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

Levenson, Samuel

8.

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

9.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

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

11.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Chanel, Coco

13.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

14.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

15.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

16.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

17.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

18.

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

Taylor, James

19.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

26.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

27.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

28.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Lakein, Alan

32.

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

33.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

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.

41.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

42.

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

Mccullers, Carson

43.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

50.

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