Motivational Quotes

Time

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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.

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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Blake, William

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

Frost, Robert

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

Plutarch

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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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

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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