Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Douglas, Norman

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Arthorne, John

24.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

25.

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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fleming, Ian

30.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

33.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Wells, H.G.

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

40.

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

Bixton, Charles

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.