Motivational Quotes

Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Paul Klee

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wanamaker, John

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

17.

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

18.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

19.

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

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

22.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

23.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

27.

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

28.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

32.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

33.

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

Scottish Proverb

34.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

35.

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

Jonson, Ben

36.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

37.

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.

38.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

39.

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

Proverb, Polish

40.

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

41.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

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

Pitman

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

45.

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

46.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

47.

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

48.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

49.

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