Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Ovid

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

10.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

11.

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

Mccullers, Carson

12.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

14.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

15.

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

16.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

17.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

18.

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.

19.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

23.

You love what you find time to do.

24.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

27.

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

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

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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

30.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

31.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

32.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

36.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

37.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

42.

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

Jef Mallett

43.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lakein, Alan

47.

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

48.

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