Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Time

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his 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.

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

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

10.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

11.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

12.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

13.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

14.

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

15.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

Paz, Octavio

17.

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

Jonson, Ben

18.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Bible

20.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

23.

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

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

Paul Klee

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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

William Shakespeare

29.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

30.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

31.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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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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 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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

41.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

42.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.