Motivational Quotes

Time

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Time

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 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.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Simplot, Jack

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

You love what you find time to do.

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

Rohn, Jim

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

10.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

11.

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

Levenson, Samuel

12.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

15.

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.

16.

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

John F. Kennedy

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

21.

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.

22.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

23.

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

24.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

25.

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.

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Murdock, Mike

28.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

29.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

30.

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

31.

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

Buxton, Charles

32.

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

33.

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.

Mann, Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Proverb, Polish

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Douglas, Norman

41.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

42.

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

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.

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

Arthorne, John

45.

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.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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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.

Fromm, Erich

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.