Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Arthorne, John

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Proverb, English

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

Paz, Octavio

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.

10.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

11.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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

14.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

15.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

16.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

17.

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.

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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

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

21.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

22.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Brown, John Mason

25.

You love what you find time to do.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

31.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

32.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Cowley, Abraham

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wanamaker, John

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

44.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

45.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

46.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

47.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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