Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

1.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

2.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

4.

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

Scottish Proverb

5.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

6.

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

7.

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

Lakein, Alan

8.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

9.

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

10.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Buxton, Charles

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

15.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Orben, Robert

18.

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

Brown, John Mason

19.

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

20.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Jef Mallett

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

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

27.

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

Field, Franklin

28.

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

Wanamaker, John

29.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

30.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

33.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

34.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

35.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

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

37.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

40.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

41.

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

42.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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.

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

45.

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

Mccullers, Carson

46.

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

47.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

48.

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

Frost, Robert

49.

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.

50.

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

Proverb, English