Motivational Quotes

Time

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Time

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

Jonson, Ben

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Levenson, Samuel

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

10.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

13.

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.

14.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

15.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

16.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

17.

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.

18.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

19.

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

20.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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.

22.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

23.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Paz, Octavio

26.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

28.

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

Simplot, Jack

29.

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

Townsend, Robert

30.

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

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.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

33.

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

34.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

35.

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

36.

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

Spencer, Herbert

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

40.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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.

43.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee