Motivational Quotes

Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

- Sutton, William

Best Quotes about Time

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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.

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

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

11.

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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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.

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

25.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.