Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gissing, George Robert

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.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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'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

16.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

19.

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

20.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

21.

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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

26.

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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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

28.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

29.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

31.

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schwartz, Delmore

35.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

44.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bible

46.

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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

48.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare