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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

2.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

3.

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

4.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

5.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

6.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

9.

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

Fleming, Ian

10.

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

Ovid

11.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

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

Scottish Proverb

16.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

17.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Proverb, Polish

22.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Bergman, Jack

24.

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

You love what you find time to do.

26.

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

27.

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

Lakein, Alan

28.

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

Lakein, Alan

29.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

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.

33.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

34.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

35.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

36.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

39.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

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.

41.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

44.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

45.

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

Book, William Frederick

46.

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

47.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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