Motivational Quotes

Time

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Proverb, English

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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Pitman

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

William Shakespeare

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Gissing, George Robert

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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.

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frost, Robert

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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 present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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