Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Time

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Buxton, Charles

12.

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

13.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

15.

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

Jef Mallett

16.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

17.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

Levenson, Samuel

20.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

21.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

22.

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

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

Berger, John

24.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

25.

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

Douglas, Norman

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

28.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

29.

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

30.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

37.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

40.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

41.

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

42.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

44.

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.

45.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

46.

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

47.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

48.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

49.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

50.

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