Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

10.

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

Maria Edgeworth

11.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

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.

15.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

16.

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

Lakein, Alan

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Pitman

19.

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

20.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

21.

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.

22.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

23.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

24.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

25.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Arthorne, John

28.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

29.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

30.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

31.

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

32.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

33.

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.

34.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

35.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

36.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

37.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

38.

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.

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

Baltasar Gracian

40.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

41.

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

Proverb, English

42.

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

Jef Mallett

43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

45.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

46.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

47.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

48.

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

49.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

50.

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