Motivational Quotes

Time

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

- Bonnie Friedman

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

12.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

13.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

14.

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

15.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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.

17.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

19.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

24.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

25.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

26.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

27.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

28.

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

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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

30.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

34.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

36.

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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

39.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

40.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

41.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

43.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

45.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bergman, Jack