Motivational Quotes

Time

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Plutarch

5.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

6.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

7.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

8.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

9.

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

10.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

14.

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

Lakein, Alan

15.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

16.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

17.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

18.

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

19.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

22.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

23.

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

Ovid

24.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

29.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

33.

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.

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

Greene, Graham

47.

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

John F. Kennedy

48.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

49.

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

50.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine