Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Orben, Robert

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Pitman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Taylor, James

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Paul Klee

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

21.

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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Brown, John Mason

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Gissing, George Robert

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Borges, Jorge Luis

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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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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.