Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Dickens, Charles

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

W. Somerset Maugham

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

10.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

11.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

12.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

14.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

18.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

20.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

21.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

22.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

23.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

25.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

26.

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

27.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

28.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

34.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

35.

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

36.

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

Dane, Frank

37.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

39.

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

42.

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

Arthorne, John

43.

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

44.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

45.

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

Townsend, Robert

46.

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

47.

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

Maria Edgeworth

48.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

49.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

50.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.