Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Time

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

Ovid

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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.

12.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

13.

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

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

15.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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

17.

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

Greene, Graham

18.

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

Bible

19.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

20.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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

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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

25.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Proverb, French

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

35.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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 soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

42.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

43.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Proverb, Polish

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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.