Motivational Quotes

Time

In politics a week is a very long time.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Time

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

Bible

You love what you find time to do.

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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

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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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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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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 most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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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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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.

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

30.

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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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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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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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

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Blake, William