Motivational Quotes

Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Bible

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

Tracy, Brian

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

10.

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

11.

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

Buxton, Charles

12.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

13.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

14.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

15.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

16.

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

Jef Mallett

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

21.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

22.

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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

24.

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

25.

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

Frost, Robert

26.

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.

27.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

28.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

29.

You love what you find time to do.

30.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

34.

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

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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

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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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

39.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

40.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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

Murdock, Mike

44.

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

Baltasar Gracian

45.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Monday is the key day of the week.