Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Buxton, Charles

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Murdock, Mike

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Paul Klee

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

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

Bible

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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