Motivational Quotes

Time

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Ovid

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

10.

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

11.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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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.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

17.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Greene, Graham

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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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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