Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

2.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

3.

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

Jef Mallett

4.

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

Frost, Robert

5.

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

Proverb, English

6.

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

7.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

8.

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

Bixton, Charles

9.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Mccullers, Carson

11.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

12.

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

13.

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

Townsend, Robert

14.

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

Murdock, Mike

15.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

16.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

22.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

23.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

24.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

25.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

26.

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

27.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Polish

30.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

31.

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.

32.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

33.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

35.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

36.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

37.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

38.

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

Plutarch

39.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

42.

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

Simplot, Jack

43.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

44.

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

45.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

46.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

48.

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