Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Time

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Murdock, Mike

16.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

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

22.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

23.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

24.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

26.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

27.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

29.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

30.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

32.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

33.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

34.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

35.

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

Baltasar Gracian

36.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

You love what you find time to do.

42.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

43.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

44.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

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

Wanamaker, John

47.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

48.

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

49.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

50.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.