Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Lakein, Alan

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

12.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

13.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Greene, Graham

16.

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

17.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

19.

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

20.

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

Bixton, Charles

21.

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

Cowley, Abraham

22.

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.

23.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

24.

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.

25.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

32.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

35.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

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.

37.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

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

40.

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

41.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

44.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

Arthorne, John

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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

49.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

50.

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

Tracy, Brian