Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

2.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

4.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

5.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

6.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

7.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

8.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Bible

14.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

15.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Mccullers, Carson

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

23.

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

24.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

25.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

Dane, Frank

27.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Field, Franklin

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

32.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

34.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

38.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

42.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

43.

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

44.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

45.

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

Orben, Robert

46.

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

47.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

48.

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

49.

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

Levenson, Samuel

50.

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