Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Time

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Otway, Thomas

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

12.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Wells, H.G.

14.

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.

15.

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

Gissing, George Robert

16.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

20.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

21.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

29.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

33.

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

Levenson, Samuel

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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.

36.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Jef Mallett

39.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

43.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

45.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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

47.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

48.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

49.

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

50.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.