Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Mccullers, Carson

11.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

12.

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

13.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

15.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

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

18.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

19.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

20.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

Chanel, Coco

22.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

23.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

26.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

27.

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

28.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

31.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

33.

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

34.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

39.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

40.

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

Otway, Thomas

41.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

42.

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

43.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

44.

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

45.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

46.

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

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So little time and so little to do.