Motivational Quotes

Time

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

- Engstrom, Ted W.

Best Quotes about Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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.

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

John F. Kennedy

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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

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

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

40.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bonnie Friedman

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French