Motivational Quotes

Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Time

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Simplot, Jack

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

10.

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

Fleming, Ian

11.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Frost, Robert

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

16.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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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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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

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Arthorne, John

27.

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

Bible

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

30.

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

Plutarch

31.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Blake, William

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare