Motivational Quotes

Time

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

- Tavern, A. B. Zu

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

10.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

11.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

12.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

15.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

20.

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

John F. Kennedy

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

25.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

27.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

28.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

29.

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

30.

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.

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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.

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.