Motivational Quotes

Time

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

- Kakascik, Karen

Best Quotes about Time

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, English

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

William Shakespeare

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

10.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

11.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

12.

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

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

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

15.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

16.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

17.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

19.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

24.

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.

25.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

26.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

29.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

32.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

33.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

34.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

35.

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

36.

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

Brown, John Mason

37.

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

38.

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

Mccullers, Carson

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

42.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite