Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

10.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

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.

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

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

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

16.

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

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Paul Klee

19.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

20.

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

21.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

22.

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

23.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

26.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Tracy, Brian

28.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

29.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

31.

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

32.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

41.

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

42.

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

Field, Franklin

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

50.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English