Motivational Quotes

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

2.

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

3.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Mccullers, Carson

5.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

6.

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

Wilde, Oscar

7.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

You love what you find time to do.

9.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

10.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

11.

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

Tracy, Brian

12.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

13.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

14.

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

Cowley, Abraham

15.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

16.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

17.

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

18.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

19.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

21.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

22.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

23.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

24.

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

Pericles

25.

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

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

29.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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.

35.

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

Wells, H.G.

36.

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

37.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

38.

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

39.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

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

Proverb, French

41.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

42.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

44.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

45.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

46.

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

47.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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