Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wanamaker, John

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

Lakein, Alan

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Paz, Octavio

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

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

14.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

16.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

17.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

18.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

19.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

20.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

24.

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

25.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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

31.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

32.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

33.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdock, Mike

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Frost, Robert

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

40.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Buxton, Charles

45.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

46.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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.

49.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Why kill time when one can employ it.