Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

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

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

John F. Kennedy

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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.

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

Book, William Frederick

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Berger, John

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

Paul Klee

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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.

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

Frost, Robert

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Blake, William

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

Maria Edgeworth

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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.

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Taylor, James

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

Zappa, Frank

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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.