Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

Buxton, Charles

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

12.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

15.

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

16.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

17.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

18.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

19.

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

Chanel, Coco

20.

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

Maria Edgeworth

21.

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

Murdock, Mike

22.

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

23.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

24.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

25.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

26.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

30.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

31.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

32.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

33.

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

34.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

35.

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.

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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

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

40.

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

41.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

42.

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

Scottish Proverb

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

46.

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

47.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

48.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

49.

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

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

Pitman