Motivational Quotes

Time

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

- Marcia, Wieder

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wilde, Oscar

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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.

10.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

11.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

12.

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

Baltasar Gracian

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

16.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

17.

You love what you find time to do.

18.

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.

19.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

24.

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

25.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

27.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

28.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

29.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

34.

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

35.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

36.

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

37.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Rosenberg, Harold