Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Taylor, James

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

11.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

12.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Bonnie Friedman

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

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

Baltasar Gracian

16.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

17.

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

Chanel, Coco

18.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

19.

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

20.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

21.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

22.

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

Wells, H.G.

23.

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

Maria Edgeworth

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

26.

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

27.

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

28.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

29.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

32.

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

Otway, Thomas

33.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

37.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

41.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

42.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

43.

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

Book, William Frederick

44.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

46.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Buscaglia, Leo