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

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Wanamaker, John

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

10.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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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

24.

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

Tracy, Brian

25.

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

26.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

27.

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

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

Gissing, George Robert

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

31.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Proverb, English

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jef Mallett

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Taylor, James

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Bixton, Charles

46.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

William Shakespeare

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.