Motivational Quotes

Time

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Paul Klee

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Wells, H.G.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Paz, Octavio

12.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

22.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

23.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

24.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

25.

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

Dickens, Charles

26.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

27.

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

28.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

29.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

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.

35.

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

Lakein, Alan

36.

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

37.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

39.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

40.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

41.

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

Berger, John

42.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

43.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

44.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Plutarch

49.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

50.

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