Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

2.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

3.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

4.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

5.

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

6.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

7.

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

8.

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

Bixton, Charles

9.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

10.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

11.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

12.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

13.

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

Paul Klee

14.

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

15.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

16.

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

Levenson, Samuel

17.

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

18.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

20.

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

21.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Zappa, Frank

23.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

24.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

25.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

26.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

32.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

39.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

40.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

41.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

42.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

43.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

44.

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

John F. Kennedy

45.

You love what you find time to do.

46.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

47.

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

48.

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

Gissing, George Robert

49.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

50.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason