Motivational Quotes

Time

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Arthorne, John

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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.

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

Berger, John

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

11.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

12.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

13.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

15.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

18.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

21.

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

22.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

23.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

24.

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

Gissing, George Robert

25.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

26.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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.

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.

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

31.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

32.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

36.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

37.

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

38.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Maria Edgeworth

40.

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

41.

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

Frost, Robert

42.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

43.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

44.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

45.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Cowley, Abraham

48.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

49.

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