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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

10.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

11.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

12.

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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Frost, Robert

16.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

17.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

18.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

20.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

21.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

25.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

26.

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

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

Cowley, Abraham

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

32.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

33.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

35.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

36.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

37.

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.

38.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

39.

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.

40.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

41.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

45.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

47.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.