Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Best Quotes about Time

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fleming, Ian

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

10.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

14.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

15.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

16.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

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

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

22.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

23.

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

24.

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

25.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

26.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

27.

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

Book, William Frederick

28.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

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

32.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

33.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

34.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Simplot, Jack

37.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

38.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

39.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

40.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

41.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

42.

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

Ovid

43.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Berger, John

47.

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

48.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

49.

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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid