Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

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

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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

Wells, H.G.

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

12.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

13.

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

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

16.

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

Otway, Thomas

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

21.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

25.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Berger, John

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

Paul Klee

32.

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

33.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

36.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

37.

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

Cowley, Abraham

38.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

39.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

43.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

44.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

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

Tracy, Brian

46.

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

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

49.

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

50.

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

Halifax, Edward F.