Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

6.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

7.

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

8.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

9.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

Murdock, Mike

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

16.

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

Paz, Octavio

17.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Pitman

19.

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

20.

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

Mccullers, Carson

21.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

22.

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

Zappa, Frank

23.

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

Orben, Robert

24.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

25.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

28.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

29.

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

30.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

31.

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

32.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

39.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

40.

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

41.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

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

Lakein, Alan

45.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

48.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

49.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

50.

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

Berger, John