Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

11.

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

Arthorne, John

12.

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

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Chanel, Coco

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Lakein, Alan

18.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Wells, H.G.

20.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

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

22.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

23.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

24.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

25.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

26.

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

Plutarch

27.

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

28.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

29.

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

Simplot, Jack

30.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

31.

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

32.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

33.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

39.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

40.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

41.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

42.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

46.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Kennedy, John F.

49.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

50.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph