Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Berger, John

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

William Shakespeare

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

10.

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

Orben, Robert

11.

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.

12.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

13.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

14.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

16.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

17.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

18.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

19.

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

Wanamaker, John

20.

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

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

25.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

26.

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

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

Field, Franklin

29.

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

Arthorne, John

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

32.

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

Lakein, Alan

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

42.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

43.

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

44.

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

Kennedy, John F.

45.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

46.

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

47.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

48.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

49.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

50.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio