Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

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

Bergman, Jack

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.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

11.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

20.

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

Taylor, James

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

26.

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

Bixton, Charles

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Hodgson, Ralph

34.

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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Soon enough is well enough.