Motivational Quotes

Time

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

2.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Brown, John Mason

4.

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

Marx, Groucho

5.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

6.

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

Lakein, Alan

7.

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

Wilde, Oscar

8.

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

9.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

13.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

14.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

17.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

18.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

19.

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

20.

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

Fleming, Ian

21.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

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

Murdock, Mike

28.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

29.

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

Malcolm Forbes

30.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

31.

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

32.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Maria Edgeworth

36.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Bible

38.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

39.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

40.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

41.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

The longest day soon comes to an end.