Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Lakein, Alan

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

10.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

13.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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.

17.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Spencer, Herbert

19.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

23.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

24.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

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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

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Fleming, Ian

30.

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

31.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

32.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

34.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

40.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

41.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

42.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Arthorne, John

46.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

48.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

49.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

50.

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

Darwin, Charles R.