Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Buxton, Charles

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

Orben, Robert

12.

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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Otway, Thomas

15.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

16.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

17.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

18.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

19.

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

20.

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

22.

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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

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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.

34.

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

Greene, Graham

35.

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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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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

45.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

46.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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All time management begins with planning.