Motivational Quotes

Time

So little time and so little to do.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Time

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

Ovid

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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

11.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

15.

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

Paul Klee

16.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

17.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

18.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

19.

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

20.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

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

John F. Kennedy

25.

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.

26.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

27.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

28.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

31.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

33.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

35.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

36.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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