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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Paul Klee

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

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

Brown, John Mason

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

15.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

16.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

17.

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.

18.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

23.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

24.

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

Proverb, Polish

25.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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

27.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

28.

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

Book, William Frederick

29.

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

Murdock, Mike

30.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

31.

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

32.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

37.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

39.

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.

40.

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

Pitman

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

44.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

45.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

50.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert