Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Halifax, Edward F.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

12.

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

13.

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

Paz, Octavio

14.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Pitman

17.

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

Frost, Robert

18.

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.

19.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

20.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

21.

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

Bible

22.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Townsend, Robert

25.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

26.

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

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

29.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

31.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

32.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

33.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

34.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

36.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

39.

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

40.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

41.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

42.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

43.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

44.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

45.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

46.

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.

47.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

48.

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

49.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

50.

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

Lakein, Alan