Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

2.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

3.

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

Bixton, Charles

4.

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

Proverb, English

5.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

6.

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

Plutarch

7.

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

8.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

9.

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

Kennedy, John F.

10.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

11.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

12.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

13.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

16.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

17.

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

Lakein, Alan

18.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Murdock, Mike

24.

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.

25.

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

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

27.

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

Book, William Frederick

28.

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

29.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

30.

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

31.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

32.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

33.

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

34.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

35.

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

Proverb, Polish

36.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

39.

You love what you find time to do.

40.

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

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

43.

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

Chanel, Coco

44.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

45.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

46.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

47.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Buxton, Charles