Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Arthorne, John

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Ovid

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

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

10.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

11.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

12.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

13.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

14.

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

15.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

18.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

19.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Bonnie Friedman

21.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

22.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

23.

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

24.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

25.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

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

Buxton, Charles

29.

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

Berger, John

30.

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

Murdock, Mike

31.

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

Fleming, Ian

32.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

33.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

Jef Mallett

36.

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

Mark Twain

37.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

38.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

48.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

49.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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