Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Chesterfield, Lord

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

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.

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

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

18.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

22.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

23.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

31.

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

32.

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

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

34.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

39.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

42.

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

Fleming, Ian

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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

45.

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

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

49.

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

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