Motivational Quotes

Time

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

- Litchfield, P. W.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

3.

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

Orben, Robert

4.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

6.

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

Book, William Frederick

7.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

8.

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

Buxton, Charles

9.

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

10.

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

11.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

12.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

13.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

18.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

19.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

20.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

21.

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.

22.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

25.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

26.

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

Fleming, Ian

27.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

29.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

36.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

37.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

38.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

39.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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.

41.

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

Greene, Graham

42.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

43.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

44.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

45.

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

Spencer, Herbert

46.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

47.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

49.

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

50.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid