Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

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

Bonnie Friedman

3.

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

4.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

6.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

7.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

8.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

9.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

10.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

11.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

12.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Pitman

16.

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

Jonson, Ben

17.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

18.

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

Gissing, George Robert

19.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

20.

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.

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

28.

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

John F. Kennedy

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

35.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

36.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

37.

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

Proverb, English

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Chanel, Coco

42.

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

44.

Time is the only critic without ambition.