Motivational Quotes

Time

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

- Marcia, Wieder

Best Quotes about Time

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jonson, Ben

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

11.

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

12.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

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

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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.

17.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

18.

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

19.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Tracy, Brian

21.

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

22.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

23.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

24.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

25.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Dickens, Charles

32.

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

Scottish Proverb

33.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

37.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

38.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

39.

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

Proverb, Polish

40.

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

41.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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

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

Murdock, Mike

45.

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

46.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

50.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic