Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Wells, H.G.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Field, Franklin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

12.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

16.

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

Bergman, Jack

17.

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.

18.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

19.

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

20.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

21.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

22.

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

Chanel, Coco

23.

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

24.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

25.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

31.

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

Murdock, Mike

32.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

33.

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

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

36.

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

Zappa, Frank

37.

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

Levenson, Samuel

38.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

41.

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

Malcolm Forbes

42.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

43.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

44.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

45.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

46.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

47.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

48.

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

Plutarch

49.

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

50.

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