Motivational Quotes

Time

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Orben, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

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

12.

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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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

14.

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

Ovid

15.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

17.

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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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Scottish Proverb

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

27.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

28.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

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

John F. Kennedy

30.

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

Wells, H.G.

31.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

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

33.

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

Paz, Octavio

34.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Jef Mallett

36.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

37.

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

Murdock, Mike

38.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

39.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

40.

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

41.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

42.

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.

43.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

45.

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

46.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

47.

You love what you find time to do.

48.

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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare