Motivational Quotes

Time

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

10.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

15.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

16.

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.

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

18.

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

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

22.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

23.

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

Lakein, Alan

24.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

25.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Cowley, Abraham

27.

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

28.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

29.

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

30.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

31.

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

Paul Klee

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

34.

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

Zappa, Frank

35.

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

36.

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

Ovid

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

38.

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

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

Plutarch

41.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

42.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

43.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

44.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

45.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

46.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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.