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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Arthorne, John

14.

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

15.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

16.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

Dane, Frank

18.

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

Bixton, Charles

19.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

Townsend, Robert

25.

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

26.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

27.

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

28.

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

Spencer, Herbert

29.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

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

31.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

32.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

33.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

39.

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

Marx, Groucho

40.

You love what you find time to do.

41.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

43.

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

Baltasar Gracian

44.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

45.

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

46.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

47.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

48.

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.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Rosenberg, Harold