Motivational Quotes

Time

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Time

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Blake, William

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

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

Proverb, English

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

10.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

11.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

18.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

20.

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

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.