Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Berger, John

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Dane, Frank

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

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Plutarch

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

10.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

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

12.

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

Maria Edgeworth

13.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

17.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

18.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

19.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

21.

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

Cowley, Abraham

22.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

23.

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

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

Bixton, Charles

27.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

28.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

29.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

30.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

31.

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

32.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

33.

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

Proverb, Polish

34.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

35.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Douglas, Norman

39.

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

Otway, Thomas

40.

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

41.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

42.

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

Orben, Robert

43.

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

Levenson, Samuel

44.

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

Greene, Graham

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

47.

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

Mark Twain

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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