Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Proverb, Polish

10.

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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Berger, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

19.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

24.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

28.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

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

30.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

31.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

32.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Simplot, Jack

35.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

36.

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

Paz, Octavio

37.

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

Lakein, Alan

38.

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.

39.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

40.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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

43.

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

Mark Twain

44.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

45.

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

46.

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

Arthorne, John

47.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

48.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

49.

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

Lakein, Alan

50.

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