Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

3.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

4.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

5.

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

6.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

11.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

12.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

13.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

16.

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

17.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

18.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

21.

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

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Marx, Groucho

24.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

25.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

29.

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.

30.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

31.

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

Levenson, Samuel

32.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

39.

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

40.

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

Mccullers, Carson

41.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

42.

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

Wells, H.G.

43.

You love what you find time to do.

44.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

45.

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

46.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

47.

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

Tracy, Brian

48.

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

Chanel, Coco

49.

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

50.

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

Malcolm Forbes