Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Gissing, George Robert

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

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

Cowley, Abraham

12.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

13.

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

Wanamaker, John

14.

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

Simplot, Jack

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

17.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

18.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

25.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

26.

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

Maria Edgeworth

27.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

28.

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

29.

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

Scottish Proverb

30.

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

Berger, John

31.

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

Zappa, Frank

32.

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

33.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Brown, John Mason

39.

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

Murdock, Mike

40.

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

41.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

42.

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

43.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

Chanel, Coco

46.

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

Jef Mallett

47.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French