Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

1.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

2.

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

Maria Edgeworth

3.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

5.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

6.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

7.

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

Blake, William

8.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

9.

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

Proverb, Polish

10.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

13.

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

14.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

15.

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

16.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

17.

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

18.

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

Spencer, Herbert

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

25.

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

Berger, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

29.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

30.

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

Douglas, Norman

31.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

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

35.

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

Brown, John Mason

36.

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

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

41.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

42.

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

Zappa, Frank

43.

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

Book, William Frederick

44.

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

45.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

46.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

47.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

48.

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

Fleming, Ian

49.

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