Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

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

Paul Klee

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Blake, William

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Plutarch

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

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

12.

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.

13.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Bixton, Charles

15.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

16.

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

Maria Edgeworth

17.

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

18.

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

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

25.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

26.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

27.

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

28.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

32.

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

33.

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

34.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

37.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

41.

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

42.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Fleming, Ian

45.

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

46.

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

47.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

48.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

49.

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

50.

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

Kennedy, John F.