Motivational Quotes

Time

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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.

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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You love what you find time to do.

13.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Arthorne, John

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

Paul Klee

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

32.

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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

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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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bible

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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