Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

13.

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

Levenson, Samuel

14.

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

Ovid

15.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

16.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

17.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

19.

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

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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.

21.

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

22.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

28.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

29.

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

30.

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

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

Frost, Robert

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Arthorne, John

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

38.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

40.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

42.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

43.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

44.

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

Bergman, Jack

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

46.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Scottish Proverb

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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