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.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

2.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

3.

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

4.

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

Ovid

5.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Baltasar Gracian

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

Maria Edgeworth

16.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

17.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

23.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

24.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

25.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

26.

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

Scottish Proverb

27.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

28.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

32.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

34.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

35.

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

36.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

38.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

39.

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

Proverb, Polish

40.

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

Chanel, Coco

41.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

42.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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

44.

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

Lakein, Alan

45.

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

46.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

47.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee