Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

11.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

15.

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

Buxton, Charles

16.

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

17.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

18.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

19.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

20.

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

21.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

24.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

25.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

26.

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

27.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

28.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Pitman

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

37.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

38.

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

Simplot, Jack

39.

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

Lakein, Alan

40.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

41.

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

Wells, H.G.

42.

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

Baltasar Gracian

43.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

44.

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

Arthorne, John

45.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

46.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

48.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

49.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

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.