Motivational Quotes

Time

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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.

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

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

Paz, Octavio

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

10.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

11.

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

Malcolm Forbes

12.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

13.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

14.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

24.

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

Greene, Graham

25.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

26.

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

John F. Kennedy

27.

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

Orben, Robert

28.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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 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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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.

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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.

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

42.

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Arthorne, John

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the soul of business.