Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

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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 spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Berger, John

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Proverb, English

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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

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Levenson, Samuel

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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.

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop