Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

2.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

10.

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

Paz, Octavio

11.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

15.

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

Fleming, Ian

16.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

17.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

18.

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

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

21.

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

Wells, H.G.

22.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

26.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

27.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

28.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

29.

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

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

32.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Levenson, Samuel

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

40.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

41.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

42.

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

43.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

Ovid

47.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

48.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

49.

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

50.

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.

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