Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

- Harper, Lucille S.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

2.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

3.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

4.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

5.

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

Orben, Robert

6.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

14.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

15.

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

Brown, John Mason

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

18.

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

19.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

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

21.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

27.

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

Tracy, Brian

28.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

35.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

36.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

37.

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

Simplot, Jack

38.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

39.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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

Wanamaker, John

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

44.

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

45.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

Buxton, Charles

47.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

48.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

50.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French