Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Ovid

2.

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

3.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

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

Chanel, Coco

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

9.

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

Mccullers, Carson

10.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

11.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

12.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

13.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

14.

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

Lakein, Alan

15.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

16.

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

John F. Kennedy

17.

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.

18.

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

Bixton, Charles

19.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

20.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

21.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

22.

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

Tracy, Brian

23.

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

24.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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.

26.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

30.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Book, William Frederick

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Paul Klee

35.

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

Murdock, Mike

36.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

37.

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

Otway, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Cowley, Abraham

41.

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

42.

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

Field, Franklin

43.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

44.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

45.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

46.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

47.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

48.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

49.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

50.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank