Motivational Quotes

Time

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

- Howe, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bible

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

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Scottish Proverb

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

11.

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

12.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

13.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

16.

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

Paz, Octavio

17.

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

18.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

22.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

23.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

25.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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

28.

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

29.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

30.

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.

31.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

32.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

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

Proverb, Polish

34.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

37.

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

38.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

39.

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

40.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

43.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

47.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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.