Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Hodgson, Ralph

Best Quotes about Time

1.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

2.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

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

4.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

5.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

7.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

8.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

9.

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

Proverb, English

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

12.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

14.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

15.

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

Spencer, Herbert

16.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

17.

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

Jonson, Ben

18.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

19.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

22.

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

Marx, Groucho

23.

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

Dane, Frank

24.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

25.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Pitman

31.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

33.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

34.

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

Book, William Frederick

35.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

36.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

37.

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

Wanamaker, John

38.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

39.

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

40.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

42.

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

Bergman, Jack

43.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

44.

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

45.

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

46.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

47.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

48.

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

49.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

50.

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

William Shakespeare