Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Gissing, George Robert

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

William Shakespeare

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

12.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

13.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

14.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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.

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

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

19.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

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

Simplot, Jack

22.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

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

24.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

27.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

28.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

29.

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

Dickens, Charles

30.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

31.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

32.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

34.

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

Arthorne, John

35.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

38.

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

39.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Wells, H.G.

42.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

44.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

46.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

48.

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

49.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

50.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio