Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Simplot, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Malcolm Forbes

2.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

3.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

4.

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

Mark Twain

5.

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

6.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

7.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

8.

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

Orben, Robert

9.

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

Lakein, Alan

10.

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

11.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

12.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Townsend, Robert

17.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

18.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

19.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

20.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

21.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

22.

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

Brown, John Mason

23.

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

24.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

25.

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

John F. Kennedy

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Levenson, Samuel

28.

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

Bergman, Jack

29.

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

Bixton, Charles

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.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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.

33.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

34.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

38.

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

39.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

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

41.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

42.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

43.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

44.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

45.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

46.

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

Cowley, Abraham

47.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

48.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

50.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.