Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Time

1.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

2.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

3.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

4.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

8.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.

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

10.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

11.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

12.

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

Greene, Graham

13.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

14.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

17.

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

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

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.

20.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

21.

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

Book, William Frederick

22.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

23.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

24.

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

Lakein, Alan

25.

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

26.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

27.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

28.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

29.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

30.

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

Murdock, Mike

31.

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

John F. Kennedy

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

35.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

36.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

37.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

38.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

39.

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

Wanamaker, John

40.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

41.

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

Scottish Proverb

42.

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

Fleming, Ian

43.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

45.

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

Baltasar Gracian

46.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

50.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.