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

1.

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

Kennedy, John F.

2.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

3.

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

Brown, John Mason

4.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

5.

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.

6.

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

Proverb, Polish

7.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

8.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

9.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

10.

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

Levenson, Samuel

11.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

13.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

14.

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

Mark Twain

15.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

16.

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.

17.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

21.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

22.

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

Scottish Proverb

23.

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

Ovid

24.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

25.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

26.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

27.

You love what you find time to do.

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

John F. Kennedy

34.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

38.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

41.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

42.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

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

Otway, Thomas

45.

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.

46.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

47.

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

48.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

50.

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