Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wanamaker, John

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Drucker, Peter F.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

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

12.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

13.

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

Frost, Robert

14.

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

Bixton, Charles

15.

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

Scottish Proverb

16.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

21.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

22.

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

Book, William Frederick

23.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

25.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

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

30.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Lakein, Alan

32.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

36.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

37.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

38.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

40.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

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

44.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

45.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

48.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

49.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is the soul of business.