Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Bible

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

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

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Berger, John

10.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

12.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

13.

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

Paz, Octavio

14.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

15.

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

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Scottish Proverb

18.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

19.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Jef Mallett

28.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

33.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Book, William Frederick

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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.

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

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Proverb, French