Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Brown, John Mason

11.

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

Fleming, Ian

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Bixton, Charles

14.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

15.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

16.

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

17.

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

Lakein, Alan

18.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

19.

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

Zappa, Frank

20.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

21.

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

22.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

23.

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

Orben, Robert

24.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

25.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

26.

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

27.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

28.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

29.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

30.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

34.

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

35.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

36.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

38.

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

39.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

40.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

44.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

46.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

47.

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

48.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

49.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

50.

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

William Shakespeare