Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Time

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Townsend, Robert

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

13.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

14.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

18.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

19.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

Douglas, Norman

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Proverb, Polish

26.

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

27.

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

Levenson, Samuel

28.

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

Pericles

29.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

32.

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

Jonson, Ben

33.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

34.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, French

37.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

38.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

39.

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

Wanamaker, John

40.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

41.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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

43.

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

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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

46.

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

Gissing, George Robert

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.