Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

10.

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.

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

12.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

13.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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

17.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

18.

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

Mark Twain

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

21.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

24.

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

Bixton, Charles

25.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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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'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

28.

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

Murdock, Mike

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

30.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

31.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

32.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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

34.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Paz, Octavio

40.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

41.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

44.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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