Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

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.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

22.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

28.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

29.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

30.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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 what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Orben, Robert

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

43.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

44.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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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

48.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul