Motivational Quotes

Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

3.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

4.

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

Arthorne, John

5.

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

Dane, Frank

6.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Bixton, Charles

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

14.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

15.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

19.

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

20.

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

Jonson, Ben

21.

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

22.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

27.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

28.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

29.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

30.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Baltasar Gracian

33.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

34.

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

35.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

36.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

37.

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

Mccullers, Carson

38.

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.

39.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

40.

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

Fleming, Ian

41.

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.

42.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

44.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

45.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

47.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

48.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

49.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore