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

1.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

2.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

4.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

5.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

Book, William Frederick

8.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

11.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

12.

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

13.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

14.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

15.

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

Wells, H.G.

16.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

17.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

18.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

19.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

Lakein, Alan

22.

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

Chanel, Coco

23.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

24.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

25.

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.

26.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

27.

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

28.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

35.

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

36.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

37.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

38.

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

Otway, Thomas

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

41.

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

42.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Jef Mallett

44.

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

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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

46.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

47.

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

Brown, John Mason

48.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

49.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

50.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert