Motivational Quotes

Time

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Wanamaker, John

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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

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

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

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

10.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

11.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

12.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

13.

You love what you find time to do.

14.

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.

15.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

16.

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.

17.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

18.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

24.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

25.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

26.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

27.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

31.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

34.

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

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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

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

Bixton, Charles

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

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

47.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

49.

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

50.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett