Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

Ovid

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

Dickens, Charles

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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

10.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

11.

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

13.

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

14.

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

Douglas, Norman

15.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

16.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

17.

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

Brown, John Mason

18.

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

John F. Kennedy

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

21.

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

22.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

23.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

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

Pitman

25.

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

Baltasar Gracian

26.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

27.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

28.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

29.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

30.

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

Marx, Groucho

31.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

33.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

34.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

35.

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

Orben, Robert

36.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

39.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

40.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

44.

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

Proverb, Polish

45.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

46.

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

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