Motivational Quotes

Time

For time is the longest distance between two places.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Time

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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.

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.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Plutarch

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

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

12.

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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

16.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

18.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

21.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

26.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

28.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

29.

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

Douglas, Norman

30.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

32.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

36.

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

Proverb, English

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

39.

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

40.

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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