Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

10.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

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

15.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Levenson, Samuel

17.

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

Arthorne, John

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

24.

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

25.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

26.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

27.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

28.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

29.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

30.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Maria Edgeworth

35.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

36.

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

Jonson, Ben

37.

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

Baltasar Gracian

38.

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

39.

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

Gissing, George Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

43.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

44.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

45.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

46.

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

Berger, John

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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

48.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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