Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

4.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

5.

You love what you find time to do.

6.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

7.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

8.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

11.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

12.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

13.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

14.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

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

16.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

17.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

John F. Kennedy

23.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

24.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

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

26.

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

Fleming, Ian

27.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

28.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

31.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

32.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

33.

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

34.

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

35.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Jonson, Ben

46.

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

Lakein, Alan

47.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time