Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

10.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

11.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

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

14.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

15.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

16.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

17.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

18.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

19.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

20.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

31.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

32.

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

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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.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

William Shakespeare

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

40.

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

41.

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

Paz, Octavio

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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