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

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Bergman, Jack

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

12.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

13.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

14.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

15.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

28.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Spencer, Herbert

41.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

43.

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

John F. Kennedy

45.

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

Jef Mallett

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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