Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Best Quotes about Time

1.

You love what you find time to do.

2.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

3.

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

4.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

5.

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

6.

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

Berger, John

7.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

8.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

9.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

Bixton, Charles

12.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

13.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

20.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

21.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

22.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

24.

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

25.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

26.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Polish

29.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

32.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

33.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

34.

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

35.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

39.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

40.

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

Book, William Frederick

41.

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

Otway, Thomas

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

44.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

45.

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

46.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

47.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

49.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.