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

1.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

2.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

3.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

4.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

5.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

7.

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

Scottish Proverb

8.

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

Marx, Groucho

9.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

14.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

15.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

16.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

19.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

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

21.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

23.

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

24.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

25.

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

Ovid

26.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

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

Cowley, Abraham

28.

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

Bible

29.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

Levenson, Samuel

32.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

34.

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

35.

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

Mccullers, Carson

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Book, William Frederick

39.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

40.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

41.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

43.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

44.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Polish

47.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

48.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

49.

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

50.

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.