Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Pitman

2.

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

Baltasar Gracian

3.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

4.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

5.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

6.

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

Proverb, Polish

7.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

8.

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

9.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

10.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

15.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

16.

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

17.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

18.

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

Lakein, Alan

19.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

21.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

Brown, John Mason

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Zappa, Frank

31.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

32.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

33.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

34.

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

Chanel, Coco

35.

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

36.

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

37.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

38.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

42.

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

Wells, H.G.

43.

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.

44.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

45.

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

46.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

47.

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

48.

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

Simplot, Jack

49.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

50.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.