Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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

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

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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

11.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Wanamaker, John

14.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

17.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

18.

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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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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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

31.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

33.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

34.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

36.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

40.

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

Book, William Frederick

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

42.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

43.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French