Motivational Quotes

Time

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

19.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

26.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

29.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

30.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

31.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

34.

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

Simplot, Jack

35.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

36.

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

37.

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

38.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

42.

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

Fleming, Ian

43.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

44.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

46.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

47.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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.

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

Scottish Proverb