Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

7.

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

8.

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

9.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

10.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

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.

12.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

13.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

15.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

17.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

20.

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

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Lakein, Alan

23.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

24.

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

25.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

26.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

28.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

30.

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

31.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Lakein, Alan

33.

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

34.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

35.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

36.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

38.

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

Simplot, Jack

39.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

40.

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

Otway, Thomas

41.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

42.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

43.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold