Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Zappa, Frank

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

12.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

13.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

14.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

15.

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

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

22.

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

Murdock, Mike

23.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Paz, Octavio

25.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

26.

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

Spencer, Herbert

27.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

28.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

35.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

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

39.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

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

Pitman

42.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

43.

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

Frost, Robert

44.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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.

47.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

48.

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

49.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

50.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch