Inspirations

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

- John Arthorne

To choose time is to save time.

- Francis Bacon

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

- Charles Baudelaire

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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?

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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.

- Arnold Bennet

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

- Thomas A Bennett

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

- Jack Bergman

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.

- Ecclesiastes 3:1, Bible

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

- Josh Billings

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

- Charles Bixton

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

- William Frederick Book

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.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

- Arthur Brisbane

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Charles Buxton

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

- Coco Chanel

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

- Lord Chesterfield

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- Winston Churchill

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

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

- Charles Darwin

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Laertius Diogenes

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.

- Peter F Drucker

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

- Peter F Drucker

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.

- Peter F Drucker

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

- Peter F Drucker

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.

- John Dryden

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.

- Henry Van Dyke

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!

- Albert Einstein

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

- Ted W Engstrom

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?

- Ted W Engstrom

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

- Franklin Field

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

- Ian Fleming

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

- Henry Ford

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

- Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Modern man thinks he loses something, time, when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

- Erich Fromm

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

- Merrick Furst

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

- George Robert Gissing

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All time management begins with planning.

- Tom Greening

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.

- Andrew Grove

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

- Robert Half

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

- Robert Half

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

- Edward F Halifax

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

- Lucille S Harper

Make a good use of the present.

- Horace

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

- Edgar Watson Howe

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.

- John Howe

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

- Victor Hugo

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time, it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, ''We have left undone those things that ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.''

- Charles E Hummel

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.

- Lee Iacocca

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

- John F Kennedy

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

- Martin Luther King Junior

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

- Jean De La Bruyere

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

- Alan Lakein

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

- Alan Lakein

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

- Alan Lakein

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

- William Law

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.

- Ivy Lee

Don't watch the clock, do what it does. Keep going.

- Samuel Levenson

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

- Georg C Lichtenberg

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

- Abraham Lincoln

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.

- P W Litchfield

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

- John Longden

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do, it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

- Sir John Lubbock

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.

- Horace Mann

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.

- Wieder Marcia

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.

- Wieder Marcia

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

- Jeffery J Mayer

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

- Robert J Mckain

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

- Marshall Mcluhan

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

- Golda Meir

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

- Mike Murdock

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

- Ovid

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

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

- Pitman

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

- Plutarch

Soon enough is well enough.

- Proverb

Lost time is never found again.

- Proverb

Now is the watchword of the wise.

- Proverb

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

- Chinese Proverb

It is later than you think.

- Chinese Proverb

Time is the soul of business.

- English Proverb

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- French Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

- French Proverb

Monday is the key day of the week.

- Gaelic Proverb

The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

- German Proverb

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

- Polish Proverb

Time and I against any two.

- Spanish Proverb

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

- Bonnie Prudden

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.

- Nido Qubein

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Edgar Quinet

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

- John Randolph

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.

- Boardroom Reports

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.

- Charles Richards

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!

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Jim Rohn

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

- Bertrand Russell

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

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Time is that in which all things pass away.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- R Shannon

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

- Jack Simplot

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Herbert Spencer

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

- William Sutton

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.

- AY B Zu Tavern

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

- James Taylor

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

- Henry David Thoreau

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

- Robert Townsend

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Source Unknown

You love what you find time to do.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

To save time is to lengthen life.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

- Source Unknown

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

- Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

- Source Unknown

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Robert Updegraff

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

- Marquis De Vauvenargues

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

- Denis Waitley

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

- John Wanamaker

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

- Christine Warren

For time is the longest distance between two places.

- Tennessee Williams

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least one 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

- Thomas Wolfe

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

To choose time is to save time.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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?

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

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.

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

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

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

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.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

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

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

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

Time and tide wait for no man.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

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.

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.

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!

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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.

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?

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

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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

Modern man thinks he loses something, time, when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

All time management begins with planning.

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.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Make a good use of the present.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

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.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time, it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, ''We have left undone those things that ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.''

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.

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

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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

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

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Don't watch the clock, do what it does. Keep going.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do, it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

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.

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.

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.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.