Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

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

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Murdock, Mike

11.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

12.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

13.

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

Dane, Frank

14.

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

15.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

19.

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

Bible

20.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

21.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

22.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

23.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

25.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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.

27.

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

Chanel, Coco

28.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

29.

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

John F. Kennedy

30.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

31.

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

Paul Klee

32.

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

33.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

37.

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

38.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

39.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

40.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

41.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

Jonson, Ben

45.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

46.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

48.

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

49.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

50.

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

Drucker, Peter F.