Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Scottish Proverb

5.

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

6.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

8.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

9.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Orben, Robert

11.

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.

12.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

13.

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

Marx, Groucho

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Murdock, Mike

16.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

18.

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

Arthorne, John

19.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

24.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

26.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

28.

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

29.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

30.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

31.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

33.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

34.

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

Zappa, Frank

35.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

36.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

37.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

38.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

43.

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

Mccullers, Carson

44.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

45.

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.

46.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

47.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

48.

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

Book, William Frederick

49.

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

50.

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.