Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

2.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

3.

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

Proverb, Polish

4.

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

Mark Twain

5.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

6.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

7.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

8.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

9.

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

13.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

14.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

23.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Wells, H.G.

30.

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

Maria Edgeworth

31.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

32.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

33.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

35.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

36.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

37.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

38.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

39.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

42.

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

Greene, Graham

43.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

44.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

46.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

47.

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

Buxton, Charles

48.

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.

49.

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

Mccullers, Carson

50.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom