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.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

2.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

3.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

4.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

12.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

14.

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.

15.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

16.

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

17.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Fleming, Ian

24.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

27.

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

28.

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

Buxton, Charles

29.

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

30.

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

31.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

32.

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

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

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

Scottish Proverb

35.

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

Levenson, Samuel

36.

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

Dane, Frank

37.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

38.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

39.

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

40.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

43.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

44.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

45.

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

46.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

47.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von