Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Blake, William

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Douglas, Norman

10.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

11.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

13.

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

Brown, John Mason

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

17.

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

Wanamaker, John

18.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

22.

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

Townsend, Robert

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

27.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

28.

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

29.

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

Pitman

30.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

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

32.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

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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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

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

Mark Twain

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

39.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

47.

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

Paul Klee

48.

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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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?

Success Magazine

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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