Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

10.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

13.

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

Arthorne, John

14.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

15.

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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

18.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

19.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Paz, Octavio

23.

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.

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

32.

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

33.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Douglas, Norman

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

43.

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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

48.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Mark Twain

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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