Motivational Quotes

Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Time

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

Tracy, Brian

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm Forbes

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

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

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

12.

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

13.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

15.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

16.

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

17.

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

Chanel, Coco

18.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

19.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

20.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

21.

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.

22.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

Lakein, Alan

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

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

Wanamaker, John

29.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

34.

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

35.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Ovid

38.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

39.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

40.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

41.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

42.

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

Bonnie Friedman

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

45.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

46.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

47.

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

Brown, John Mason

48.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

Ovid

50.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.