Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

3.

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

4.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

5.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

8.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

9.

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

Brown, John Mason

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

15.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

16.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Field, Franklin

23.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

24.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

25.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

30.

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

Chanel, Coco

31.

You love what you find time to do.

32.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

33.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

36.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

38.

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

Buxton, Charles

39.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

41.

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

Pitman

42.

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

Arthorne, John

43.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

44.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.