Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Mccullers, Carson

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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.

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Pitman

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Taylor, James

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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

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

Field, Franklin

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Wanamaker, John

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

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

Marx, Groucho