Motivational Quotes

Time

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

- Success Magazine

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

2.

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

3.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

4.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Field, Franklin

7.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

8.

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

9.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

14.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

17.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

24.

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

Levenson, Samuel

25.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

26.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

27.

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

28.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

31.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

32.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

33.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

34.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

35.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

36.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

37.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

You love what you find time to do.

40.

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

41.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

42.

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

Orben, Robert

43.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Proverb, Polish

45.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

46.

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

Bergman, Jack

47.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

48.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Marx, Groucho

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von