Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

12.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

13.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

17.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

19.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

21.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Lakein, Alan

24.

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

Simplot, Jack

25.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

26.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

27.

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

Otway, Thomas

28.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

32.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

33.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

34.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

35.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

36.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

37.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas