Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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.

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

4.

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

Scottish Proverb

5.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

6.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

8.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

9.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

10.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

11.

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

Douglas, Norman

12.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

13.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

14.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

17.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

18.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

19.

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

20.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

21.

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

Tracy, Brian

22.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

23.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

24.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

26.

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

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

29.

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

30.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

31.

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

Townsend, Robert

32.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

33.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

35.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

36.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

38.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

40.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

Plutarch

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward