Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

17.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

18.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

19.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

20.

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

Fleming, Ian

21.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

22.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

24.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

29.

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

Proverb, Polish

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.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

32.

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

John F. Kennedy

33.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

34.

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

Mccullers, Carson

35.

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

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

37.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

38.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

40.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

41.

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

Murdock, Mike

42.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

43.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

44.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

45.

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.

46.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

47.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

48.

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

Wells, H.G.

49.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

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

Paz, Octavio