Motivational Quotes

Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Otway, Thomas

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

You love what you find time to do.

12.

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

Frost, Robert

13.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

14.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

15.

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.

16.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

18.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

19.

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

Maria Edgeworth

20.

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.

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

24.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

25.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

26.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

27.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

32.

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

John F. Kennedy

33.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

36.

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

37.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

38.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

39.

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

40.

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

Brown, John Mason

41.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

42.

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

43.

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

Paul Klee

44.

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

45.

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

Dane, Frank

46.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

47.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

48.

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

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham