Motivational Quotes

Time

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Time

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Arthorne, John

10.

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.

11.

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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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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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

14.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

15.

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

Orben, Robert

16.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

17.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

18.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

20.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Paul Klee

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

24.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

26.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

28.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

29.

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

30.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

31.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

32.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ovid

36.

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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

42.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

43.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

44.

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

Plutarch

45.

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.

46.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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You love what you find time to do.

50.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman