Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

2.

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

Pitman

3.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

4.

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

5.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

6.

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

7.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

8.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

9.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

10.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

11.

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

12.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Mccullers, Carson

17.

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

Jef Mallett

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

24.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

25.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

26.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

29.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

30.

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

31.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

32.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

38.

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

39.

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

Paz, Octavio

40.

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

Mark Twain

41.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

42.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

43.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

46.

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

47.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

48.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

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.

50.

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

Maria Edgeworth