Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Schwartz, Delmore

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Orben, Robert

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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

31.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Proverb, Polish

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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 the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Carlyle, Thomas