Motivational Quotes

Time

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

2.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

3.

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

Plutarch

4.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

5.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

9.

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

Proverb, English

10.

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

Simplot, Jack

11.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

12.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

13.

You love what you find time to do.

14.

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

Spencer, Herbert

15.

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

16.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

20.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

21.

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

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

28.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

29.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

32.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

36.

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

37.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

38.

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

39.

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

Bonnie Friedman

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

41.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

42.

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

Brown, John Mason

43.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

44.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

46.

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

Proverb, Polish

47.

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

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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

50.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant