Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

10.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

11.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

12.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

13.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

14.

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

15.

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

Ovid

16.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

19.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

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

21.

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

Brown, John Mason

22.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

27.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

John F. Kennedy

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

Lakein, Alan

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

37.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

38.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

39.

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

40.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

41.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

42.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

44.

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

45.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

50.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.