Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Plutarch

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

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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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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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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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Wells, H.G.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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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

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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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

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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