Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

2.

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.

3.

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

Dickens, Charles

4.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

5.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

6.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

7.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

8.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

9.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

10.

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

Proverb, Polish

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

16.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

Frost, Robert

23.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

26.

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

Fleming, Ian

27.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

28.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

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

31.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

32.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

35.

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

36.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

37.

You love what you find time to do.

38.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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.

40.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

44.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

45.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

46.

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

Jonson, Ben

47.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

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

50.

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