Motivational Quotes

Time

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Time

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

Cowley, Abraham

You love what you find time to do.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bixton, Charles

10.

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

Malcolm Forbes

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Berger, John

13.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

14.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

15.

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

John F. Kennedy

17.

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

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

20.

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

23.

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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

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.

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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

32.

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

Proverb, Polish

33.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Townsend, Robert

35.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

38.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

45.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

46.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

47.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

48.

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.

49.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

50.

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