Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Proverb, English

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

10.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

16.

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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

18.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

19.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

20.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

26.

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

Gissing, George Robert

27.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

28.

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.

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

Bixton, Charles

32.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

33.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

35.

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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

45.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

46.

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

47.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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