Motivational Quotes

Time

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

3.

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

Marx, Groucho

4.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

5.

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

6.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

Kennedy, John F.

8.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

9.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, John Mason

12.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

13.

You love what you find time to do.

14.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

15.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

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

Field, Franklin

17.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

24.

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

Buxton, Charles

25.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

26.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

27.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

28.

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

Pitman

29.

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

30.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

31.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Arthorne, John

33.

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.

34.

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

Tracy, Brian

35.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

36.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

43.

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

Bonnie Friedman

44.

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

Spencer, Herbert

45.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

49.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

50.

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

Covey, Stephen R.