Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

10.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

11.

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

12.

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

Zappa, Frank

13.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

14.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

15.

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

Fleming, Ian

16.

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

Mccullers, Carson

17.

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

18.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

20.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

21.

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

Scottish Proverb

22.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

23.

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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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

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

29.

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

30.

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

Frost, Robert

31.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

33.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

34.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

35.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

36.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

37.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

39.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

40.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

41.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

42.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

46.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

47.

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

Chesterfield, Lord