Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

2.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

3.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

4.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb, Polish

8.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

11.

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

12.

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

13.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

14.

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

Simplot, Jack

15.

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

Pitman

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

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

Jef Mallett

18.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

21.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

22.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

23.

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

24.

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

Lakein, Alan

25.

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

Bergman, Jack

26.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

27.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

28.

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

29.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

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

31.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

32.

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

Baltasar Gracian

33.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

34.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

35.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

36.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

37.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

39.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

40.

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

Zappa, Frank

41.

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.