Motivational Quotes

Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

10.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Townsend, Robert

12.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

13.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

14.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

15.

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

16.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

20.

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

Field, Franklin

21.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

22.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

23.

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

24.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

25.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

26.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

27.

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

Proverb, Polish

28.

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

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

31.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

32.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

36.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

37.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

38.

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

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

41.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

46.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

48.

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

49.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

50.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop