Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

- Bennet, Arnold

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.

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Paul Klee

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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 we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

30.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Proverb, Polish

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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

Pitman

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

Field, Franklin

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

Bible

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

48.

You love what you find time to do.

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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