Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

1.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

4.

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

Wells, H.G.

5.

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

Proverb, Polish

6.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

7.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

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

Arthorne, John

9.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

10.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

11.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

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

Berger, John

15.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

21.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

22.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

23.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

24.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

27.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

28.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

29.

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

30.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

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

Simplot, Jack

32.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

33.

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

Fleming, Ian

34.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

35.

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

Townsend, Robert

36.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

37.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

38.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

39.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

40.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

41.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

42.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

43.

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

44.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

45.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

46.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

47.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.