Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Chesterfield, Lord

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Frost, Robert

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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.

16.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Bixton, Charles

18.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

19.

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

Cowley, Abraham

20.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

25.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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

28.

You love what you find time to do.

29.

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.

30.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

31.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

33.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

34.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

38.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

40.

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

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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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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

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

47.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must