Motivational Quotes

Time

In politics a week is a very long time.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Jonson, Ben

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

10.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

11.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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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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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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.

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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

18.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

23.

You love what you find time to do.

24.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Arthorne, John

26.

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

27.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

28.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

29.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

30.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

31.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

32.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

33.

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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Paul Klee

36.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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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

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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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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Pitman

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

46.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.