Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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.

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

10.

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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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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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

13.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Proverb, French

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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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

33.

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

34.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Scottish Proverb

36.

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

Lakein, Alan

37.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

43.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

45.

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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.