Motivational Quotes

Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

10.

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

Orben, Robert

11.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

13.

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

14.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

15.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

16.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

21.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

22.

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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

28.

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

Dane, Frank

29.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Proverb, French

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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

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Blake, William

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

42.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.