Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Frost, Robert

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

10.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

11.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

12.

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

13.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

14.

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

15.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

16.

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

17.

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

Murdock, Mike

18.

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

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

22.

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

Maria Edgeworth

23.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

26.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

27.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

31.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

34.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

35.

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

36.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

37.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

38.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

39.

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

Baltasar Gracian

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

42.

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

Spencer, Herbert

43.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

44.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

45.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

46.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

47.

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

Book, William Frederick

48.

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

Wells, H.G.

49.

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

50.

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

Chanel, Coco