Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Paz, Octavio

10.

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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Douglas, Norman

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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

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

29.

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

Scottish Proverb

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

36.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Ovid

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You love what you find time to do.