Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Time

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Maria Edgeworth

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Paz, Octavio

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Ovid

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

44.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Otway, Thomas