Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

11.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

24.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Taylor, James

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

38.

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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Fleming, Ian