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

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Pericles

10.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

11.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

12.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Blake, William

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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

19.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

21.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

23.

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

24.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

25.

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.

26.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

30.

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

Gissing, George Robert

31.

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

Jonson, Ben

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

33.

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.

34.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

35.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

38.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

39.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

41.

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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

46.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.