Motivational Quotes

Time

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, French

3.

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

4.

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

Paz, Octavio

5.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

7.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

8.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

9.

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

10.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

16.

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

Plutarch

17.

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

John F. Kennedy

18.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

20.

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

21.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

23.

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

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

25.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

29.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

31.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

32.

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.

33.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

34.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

40.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

41.

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

William Shakespeare