Motivational Quotes

Time

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

2.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

3.

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.

4.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

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

8.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

9.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

10.

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

Cowley, Abraham

11.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

13.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

14.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

15.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Proverb, Polish

21.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

22.

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

Wanamaker, John

23.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

24.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

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

26.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

27.

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

28.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

31.

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

Orben, Robert

32.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

33.

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

34.

You love what you find time to do.

35.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

36.

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

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

39.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

40.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

45.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.