Motivational Quotes

Time

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Best Quotes about Time

1.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

2.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

3.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

4.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

5.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

8.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

11.

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

Buxton, Charles

12.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

13.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

14.

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

15.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

16.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

17.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

19.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

21.

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

22.

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

Otway, Thomas

23.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

24.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

32.

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

Mccullers, Carson

33.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

35.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

40.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

41.

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

Douglas, Norman

42.

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

43.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

44.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

45.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

48.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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