Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gissing, George Robert

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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 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

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

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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.

12.

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

Berger, John

13.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

14.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

15.

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

16.

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

Wells, H.G.

17.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

18.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

20.

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

21.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

22.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

23.

You love what you find time to do.

24.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

25.

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

Bixton, Charles

26.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

31.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

34.

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

Mark Twain

35.

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

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

Blake, William

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

38.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

39.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

40.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

41.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

42.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

43.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Frost, Robert

45.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

46.

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

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar