Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

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

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

10.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

11.

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

Wells, H.G.

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

14.

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

Simplot, Jack

15.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

16.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

17.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

18.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

23.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

24.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

25.

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

Berger, John

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Murdock, Mike

30.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

31.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

32.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

33.

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

34.

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

Jef Mallett

35.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

36.

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

Townsend, Robert

37.

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

38.

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

Pericles

39.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

40.

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.

41.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

42.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Greene, Graham

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith