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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Arthorne, John

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

10.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

12.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Polish

15.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

Gissing, George Robert

17.

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.

18.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

19.

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

Bible

20.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

21.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

23.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

25.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

27.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

28.

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

29.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

30.

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

Spencer, Herbert

31.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

33.

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

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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

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

42.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

44.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

45.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

46.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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