Motivational Quotes

Time

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Mccullers, Carson

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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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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

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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

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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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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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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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.