Motivational Quotes

Time

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Plutarch

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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

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

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

Orben, Robert

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

10.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

11.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

12.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

13.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Baltasar Gracian

18.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

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

Book, William Frederick

20.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

21.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

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

23.

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

24.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

25.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

26.

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

27.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

28.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

29.

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

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

34.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

36.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

37.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

38.

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.

39.

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

Maria Edgeworth

40.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

41.

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

42.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

43.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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 the soul of business.

Proverb, English

46.

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

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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.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

49.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Drucker, Peter F.