Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Polish

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, French

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

14.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

15.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

16.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

17.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

18.

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

19.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

25.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

28.

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.

29.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Paul Klee

33.

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

35.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

36.

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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

38.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

39.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

40.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

43.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

44.

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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

47.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

48.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

49.

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

Plutarch

50.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.