Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Marx, Groucho

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Ovid

10.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

11.

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

Fleming, Ian

12.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

13.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

14.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

15.

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

Ovid

16.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

21.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, English

29.

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

Cowley, Abraham

30.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

31.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

37.

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

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

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

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.

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

Brown, John Mason

42.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

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

Mccullers, Carson

44.

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

45.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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

47.

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

Townsend, Robert

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

50.

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.