Motivational Quotes

Time

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

- Melanie Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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.

2.

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

Douglas, Norman

3.

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

Townsend, Robert

4.

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

5.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

6.

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

Spencer, Herbert

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

11.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

12.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

13.

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

Cowley, Abraham

14.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

15.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

16.

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

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Wells, H.G.

21.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

22.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

23.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

24.

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

25.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

28.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

29.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

30.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

31.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

34.

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.

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Levenson, Samuel

40.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

43.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

44.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

46.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Taylor, James

49.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo