Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Malcolm Forbes

13.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

15.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

18.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

25.

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

26.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

29.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

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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

33.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

34.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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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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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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

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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.

40.

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

Orben, Robert

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

44.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

45.

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

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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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