Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Time

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Wells, H.G.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

10.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

13.

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

Plutarch

14.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

15.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

16.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

17.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

18.

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

Field, Franklin

19.

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

Bergman, Jack

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

21.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

22.

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

23.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

25.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

26.

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.

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

30.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

31.

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

Paz, Octavio

32.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bible

34.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

35.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Jef Mallett

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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

38.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

39.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

40.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

42.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Schwartz, Delmore

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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

Blake, William

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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

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You love what you find time to do.

50.

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