Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Plutarch

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Townsend, Robert

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

10.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

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

Buxton, Charles

19.

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

20.

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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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

22.

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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

24.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

25.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

26.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

32.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

38.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

39.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

42.

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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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

44.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

45.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

46.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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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