Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Book, William Frederick

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, English

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

Orben, Robert

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

Blake, William

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

10.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

11.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

13.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

14.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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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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

19.

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

Mccullers, Carson

20.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

26.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

28.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

31.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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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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

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

41.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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

44.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

45.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

46.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

47.

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

Maria Edgeworth

48.

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

Lakein, Alan

49.

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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert