Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Ovid

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Simplot, Jack

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Murdock, Mike

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Cowley, Abraham

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Mccullers, Carson

14.

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

Fleming, Ian

15.

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

16.

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

Dickens, Charles

17.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

18.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

20.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

21.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

24.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

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

30.

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

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

32.

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

33.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

35.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

38.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

40.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

41.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

42.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

43.

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

44.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

47.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Arthorne, John