Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

2.

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

Murdock, Mike

3.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

5.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

7.

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.

8.

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

Orben, Robert

9.

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

11.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

12.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

13.

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

Proverb, Polish

14.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

15.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

16.

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

Berger, John

17.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

18.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

21.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

22.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

26.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

28.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

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

30.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

31.

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

32.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

33.

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.

34.

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

Bergman, Jack

35.

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

Ovid

36.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Taylor, James

40.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

41.

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

42.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

45.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

46.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

Wanamaker, John

49.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

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