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

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

Paz, Octavio

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Blake, William

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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

15.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

17.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

18.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

20.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

21.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

22.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

23.

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

Lakein, Alan

24.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

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

26.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

27.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

29.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

36.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

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

Greene, Graham

38.

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

Dickens, Charles

39.

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

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

41.

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

Gissing, George Robert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Levenson, Samuel

46.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

47.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

49.

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

Murdock, Mike

50.

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