Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

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.

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

11.

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

18.

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

Proverb, Polish

19.

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

Plutarch

20.

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

Douglas, Norman

21.

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

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

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

25.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Baltasar Gracian

27.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

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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

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich