Motivational Quotes

Time

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Blake, William

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

10.

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

11.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

12.

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

Taylor, James

13.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

14.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

17.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

22.

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

23.

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

Field, Franklin

24.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

25.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

26.

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.

27.

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

Bergman, Jack

28.

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

Tracy, Brian

29.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Scottish Proverb

34.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

35.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

38.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

39.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

40.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

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.

43.

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.

44.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Frost, Robert

46.

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

Wells, H.G.

47.

Why kill time when one can employ it.