Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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.

10.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

11.

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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Hummel, Charles E.

13.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

16.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Paz, Octavio

24.

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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

26.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

28.

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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

31.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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 king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

34.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

45.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.