Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Time

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Berger, John

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

10.

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

11.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

12.

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

Marx, Groucho

13.

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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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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.

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Orben, Robert

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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