Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

Simplot, Jack

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

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

Arthorne, John

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Spencer, Herbert

13.

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

14.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

16.

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

Greene, Graham

17.

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

18.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

19.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

20.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

21.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

25.

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.

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

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

Ovid

29.

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

John F. Kennedy

30.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

35.

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

36.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

39.

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

Paul Klee

40.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

41.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

44.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

46.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

50.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby