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

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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 barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

13.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

14.

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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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

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Mark Twain

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Bixton, Charles

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

30.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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.

32.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dickens, Charles

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bible

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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.

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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