Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Time

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

Murdock, Mike

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

14.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

15.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

19.

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

Levenson, Samuel

20.

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

Townsend, Robert

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Chanel, Coco

23.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

30.

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

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

36.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

37.

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

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

42.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

43.

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

44.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

45.

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

Pitman

46.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

47.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

48.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Lakein, Alan