Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Orben, Robert

10.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

11.

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

12.

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

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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

14.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

17.

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

Berger, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Otway, Thomas

21.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

25.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

26.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

27.

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.

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

30.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

31.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Lakein, Alan

34.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Paul Klee

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

43.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

44.

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

Proverb, French

45.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

46.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

49.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William