Motivational Quotes

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Levenson, Samuel

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Kennedy, John F.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Dane, Frank

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb