Motivational Quotes

Time

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

3.

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

4.

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

5.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

6.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

7.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

9.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

11.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

14.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

17.

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

Bixton, Charles

18.

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

Book, William Frederick

19.

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

Simplot, Jack

20.

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

Plutarch

22.

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

23.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

24.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

25.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Paul Klee

27.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Paz, Octavio

31.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

32.

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.

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

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

Ovid

35.

You love what you find time to do.

36.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

37.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

38.

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

39.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

40.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

41.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

45.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

47.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

48.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

50.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith