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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Lakein, Alan

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

12.

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

13.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

20.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

21.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

22.

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

23.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

24.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

25.

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

Proverb, Polish

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

29.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

31.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

32.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

33.

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

34.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

35.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

36.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buxton, Charles

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

39.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

40.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

42.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

43.

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

Malcolm Forbes

44.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

48.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset