Motivational Quotes

Time

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

2.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

3.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

Simplot, Jack

5.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

6.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

8.

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

Ovid

9.

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

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Lakein, Alan

19.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

22.

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

Townsend, Robert

23.

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

Gissing, George Robert

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Bixton, Charles

27.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

Proverb, Polish

30.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

35.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

36.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

37.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

40.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

41.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

44.

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

Frost, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

49.

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

50.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French