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.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

Field, Franklin

3.

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

Gissing, George Robert

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

7.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

8.

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

Dickens, Charles

9.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

10.

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

Lakein, Alan

11.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

12.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

13.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

14.

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

15.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

24.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

26.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

27.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

28.

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

Greene, Graham

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

33.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

36.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

37.

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

38.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

39.

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

Otway, Thomas

40.

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

Jef Mallett

41.

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

42.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

44.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

45.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Dane, Frank

47.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

49.

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

50.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time