Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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

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

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Lakein, Alan

10.

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.

11.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

12.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

13.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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

15.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

16.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

17.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

21.

You love what you find time to do.

22.

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

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

25.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

26.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

29.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

30.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

31.

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

32.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

33.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

34.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

36.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

37.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

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

Baltasar Gracian

39.

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

Zappa, Frank

40.

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

Pitman

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.

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

44.

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

Marx, Groucho

45.

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

Simplot, Jack

46.

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

47.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

49.

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

Ovid

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