Motivational Quotes

Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

- Half, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

12.

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

13.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

14.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

15.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

16.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

17.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

18.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

19.

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

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

25.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

26.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

27.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

29.

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

30.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

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

Mark Twain

32.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

34.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

35.

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

Lakein, Alan

36.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Buxton, Charles

41.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

42.

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

43.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

44.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

45.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

46.

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

Proverb, French

47.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar