Motivational Quotes

Time

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Time

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Wells, H.G.

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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You love what you find time to do.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Tracy, Brian

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Rohn, Jim

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis