Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Paul Klee

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Arthorne, John

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

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

Murdock, Mike

10.

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

Bixton, Charles

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Jef Mallett

14.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

24.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

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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

28.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

32.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

33.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

34.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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

36.

You love what you find time to do.

37.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

39.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

40.

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

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

44.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

45.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Hodgson, Ralph

48.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

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

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert