Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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

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

Pitman

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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.

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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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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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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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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

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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

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Spencer, Herbert

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul