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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

10.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

11.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

13.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

14.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

15.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

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

21.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

22.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

23.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

24.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

25.

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

Bergman, Jack

26.

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

27.

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

Cowley, Abraham

28.

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

John F. Kennedy

29.

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.

30.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

31.

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

32.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

33.

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

Buxton, Charles

34.

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

Levenson, Samuel

35.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

36.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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.

41.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

43.

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

Simplot, Jack

44.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Jef Mallett

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

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 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