Motivational Quotes

Time

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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

Otway, Thomas

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

10.

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

Cowley, Abraham

11.

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.

12.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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.

16.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

17.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

18.

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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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

21.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

22.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

29.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

30.

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

Simplot, 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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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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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

37.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

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

Bible

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

46.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace