Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Proverb, Polish

Best Quotes about Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

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

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

13.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

15.

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

16.

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

Orben, Robert

17.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

18.

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.

19.

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

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Wells, H.G.

22.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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

24.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

28.

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

29.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

34.

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

37.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

38.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

39.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

41.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

42.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

44.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

45.

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.

46.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Otway, Thomas

49.

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

Greene, Graham

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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