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.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

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

4.

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

Arthorne, John

5.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

6.

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.

7.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

8.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

9.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

10.

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

11.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

13.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Plutarch

15.

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

16.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

17.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Book, William Frederick

23.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

24.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

25.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

26.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

29.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

30.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

Dane, Frank

33.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

34.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

35.

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.

36.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

38.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

39.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

40.

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

41.

You love what you find time to do.

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Lakein, Alan

45.

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

46.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

47.

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

48.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

49.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

50.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De