Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Best Quotes about Time

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

11.

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.

12.

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

Bixton, Charles

13.

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

14.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

15.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

21.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

22.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

23.

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

24.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

25.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

26.

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

27.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

28.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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.

30.

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

Gissing, George Robert

31.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

32.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

33.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

34.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

35.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

36.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

38.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

39.

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

Wanamaker, John

40.

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

Field, Franklin

41.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

42.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

43.

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

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

48.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare