Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

11.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

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

14.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

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

Maria Edgeworth

16.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

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

18.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

19.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

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

Otway, Thomas

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

24.

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

Jonson, Ben

25.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

31.

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

Scottish Proverb

32.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

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.

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.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

38.

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

39.

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

Lakein, Alan

40.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

41.

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

Bonnie Friedman

42.

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

Tracy, Brian

43.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

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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

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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

48.

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

Wells, H.G.

49.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

50.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace