Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

2.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

3.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

4.

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.

5.

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

Kennedy, John F.

6.

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

Book, William Frederick

7.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

8.

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.

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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

10.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

11.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

12.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

13.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

14.

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

15.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

18.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Tracy, Brian

20.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

28.

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

Paul Klee

29.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

33.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

34.

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

35.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

40.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

41.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

42.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

43.

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

44.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

47.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

48.

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

49.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

50.

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

Orben, Robert