Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Levenson, Samuel

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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.

16.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

17.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

18.

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

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

21.

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

Pitman

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

23.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

24.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

25.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

26.

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

27.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

28.

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

John F. Kennedy

29.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

30.

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

Chanel, Coco

31.

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

Dickens, Charles

32.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

38.

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

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

40.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

42.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

43.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Bixton, Charles

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

47.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

49.

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