Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

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

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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

27.

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

28.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

29.

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.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

41.

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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Book, William Frederick

49.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic