Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

11.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

12.

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

13.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

14.

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

15.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

16.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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

19.

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

Simplot, Jack

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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

21.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

23.

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

Bible

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

28.

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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

30.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

36.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

37.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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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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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

41.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

42.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

43.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

44.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

46.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham