Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

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

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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

14.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

15.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

16.

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

17.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

18.

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

19.

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

20.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

21.

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

Book, William Frederick

22.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

23.

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

25.

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 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

27.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

31.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

32.

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

33.

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

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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.

39.

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.

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Cowley, Abraham

43.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

45.

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

Proverb, French

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

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

John F. Kennedy

50.

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.