Motivational Quotes

Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Time

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Greene, Graham

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.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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You love what you find time to do.

22.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Levenson, Samuel

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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