Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

3.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

4.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

5.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

6.

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

Fleming, Ian

7.

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

8.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

9.

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

10.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

16.

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

Mark Twain

17.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

21.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

22.

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

Maria Edgeworth

23.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

24.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

25.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

30.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

33.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

34.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Chanel, Coco

38.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

39.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

45.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

46.

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

John F. Kennedy

47.

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

Zappa, Frank

48.

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

Bixton, Charles

49.

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

50.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch