Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

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

11.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Paz, Octavio

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

20.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Buxton, Charles

22.

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.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

24.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

27.

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

28.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

29.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

30.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

32.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

33.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

34.

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

35.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

38.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

39.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

43.

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

Ovid

44.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

48.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

49.

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

50.

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