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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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

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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

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Wells, H.G.

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord