Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Churchill, Winston

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

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

William Shakespeare

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

10.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

11.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

12.

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

John F. Kennedy

13.

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

14.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

18.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

19.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

21.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

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

24.

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

Bergman, Jack

25.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

26.

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

Ovid

27.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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

Tracy, Brian

29.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

31.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

32.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

33.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Bible

35.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

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

Murdock, Mike

41.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

42.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

43.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

49.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

50.

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