Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Ovid

2.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

3.

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

4.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

5.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

8.

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

9.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

11.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

12.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

13.

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

14.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

15.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

16.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

20.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

21.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

Plutarch

25.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

26.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

27.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

28.

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

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

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

Cowley, Abraham

33.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

34.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Maria Edgeworth

36.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

38.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

39.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

41.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

42.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

43.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

44.

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

45.

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

Paul Klee

46.

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

47.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

48.

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.

49.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

50.

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.