Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brown, John Mason

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.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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

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

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.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

12.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Gissing, George Robert

17.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

18.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

19.

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

Bergman, Jack

20.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

21.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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

24.

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

John F. Kennedy

25.

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

Proverb, Polish

26.

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.

Engstrom, Ted W.

27.

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

Berger, John

28.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

29.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

30.

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.

31.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

32.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

39.

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.

40.

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

Fleming, Ian

41.

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

Taylor, James

42.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

43.

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.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Paul Klee

45.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

Warren, Christine

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

48.

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

49.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite