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

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

Proverb, Polish

11.

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

12.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

13.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

14.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

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

Mark Twain

17.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

18.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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

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

24.

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

25.

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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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

28.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

30.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

31.

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

Proverb, English

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

33.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

37.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

38.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Arthorne, John

44.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

Proverb, French

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

48.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb