Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bonnie Friedman

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Gissing, George Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

18.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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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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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

27.

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

Orben, Robert

28.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

30.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis