Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

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

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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

10.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

11.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

15.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

16.

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

Wells, H.G.

17.

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

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.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

20.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

21.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

22.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

23.

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

24.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

25.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

26.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

27.

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

28.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

29.

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

Cowley, Abraham

30.

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

Bonnie Friedman

31.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

32.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

33.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

34.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

35.

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

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

38.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

39.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

41.

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.

42.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

43.

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

44.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

45.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

46.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time