Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

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

Ovid

You love what you find time to do.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

13.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

27.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

28.

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

29.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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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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

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

40.

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

Proverb, Polish

41.

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

Chanel, Coco

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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