Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

- Brisbane, Arthur

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

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

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

14.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

15.

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

Proverb, Polish

16.

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

Marx, Groucho

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

20.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

23.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Jonson, Ben

25.

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

26.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

27.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

28.

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

29.

You love what you find time to do.

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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.

32.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

33.

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

Buxton, Charles

34.

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

35.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pericles

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Proverb, English

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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.

47.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

48.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

49.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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?

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