Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Berger, John

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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