Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kennedy, John F.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Jonson, Ben

11.

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

12.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

13.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

15.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

16.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

17.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

18.

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

Orben, Robert

19.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

Scottish Proverb

24.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

25.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Maria Edgeworth

27.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

28.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

30.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

31.

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

32.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

33.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

34.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

38.

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

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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