Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Time

1.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

2.

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

3.

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

Lakein, Alan

4.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

5.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

6.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

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

Jef Mallett

8.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

9.

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

11.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

12.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

13.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

14.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Brown, John Mason

18.

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

19.

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

Zappa, Frank

20.

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

Simplot, Jack

21.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

22.

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

Jonson, Ben

23.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

24.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

Marx, Groucho

27.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Orben, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Townsend, Robert

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

34.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Cowley, Abraham

36.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

37.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

38.

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

Levenson, Samuel

39.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

41.

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

Book, William Frederick

42.

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

Scottish Proverb

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

46.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch