Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

10.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

15.

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

16.

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

Fleming, Ian

17.

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

18.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

19.

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

20.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

21.

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

22.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

23.

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.

24.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

25.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

26.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

29.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

30.

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

Arthorne, John

31.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

32.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

33.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

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.

36.

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

Proverb, Polish

37.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

38.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

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

Buxton, Charles

41.

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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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 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

44.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

45.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

46.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee