Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Marx, Groucho

3.

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

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

6.

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

Paul Klee

7.

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

8.

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

Fleming, Ian

9.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

14.

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

Wells, H.G.

15.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

16.

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

Malcolm Forbes

17.

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

Bixton, Charles

18.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

19.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

20.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

21.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

26.

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.

27.

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

Mccullers, Carson

28.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

29.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

30.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

31.

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

Lakein, Alan

32.

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

Bonnie Friedman

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

34.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

35.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

Gissing, George Robert

38.

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

39.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

40.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

43.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

47.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

50.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French