Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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.

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

Taylor, James

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.

You love what you find time to do.

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

Ovid

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

10.

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

Bixton, Charles

11.

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

Pitman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Levenson, Samuel

16.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Paz, Octavio

20.

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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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

26.

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

27.

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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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.

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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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Greene, Graham

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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