Motivational Quotes

Time

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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.

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.

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

Wanamaker, John

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Paz, Octavio

11.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

13.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

14.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

15.

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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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

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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

18.

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

Orben, Robert

19.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

20.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

22.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

25.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

28.

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

Bixton, Charles

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

31.

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

Brown, John Mason

32.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buxton, Charles

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

38.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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.