Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

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

Bonnie Friedman

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Wells, H.G.

15.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

16.

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

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

18.

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

Proverb, Polish

19.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

24.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

27.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

28.

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

Buxton, Charles

29.

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

Field, Franklin

30.

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

31.

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

Greene, Graham

32.

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

33.

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

John F. Kennedy

34.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

35.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

36.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

37.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

38.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

39.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

40.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

41.

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

42.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

44.

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

Cowley, Abraham

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

47.

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

Jef Mallett

48.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

49.

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 is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George