Motivational Quotes

Time

Soon enough is well enough.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

11.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

12.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

13.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

15.

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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

18.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

31.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

33.

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

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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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

36.

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

37.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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.

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

Otway, Thomas

40.

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

Brown, John Mason

41.

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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