Motivational Quotes

Time

Soon enough is well enough.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

10.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

12.

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

13.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

17.

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

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

Levenson, Samuel

19.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

20.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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

24.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

25.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

26.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

27.

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

28.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Buxton, Charles

34.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

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

42.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

43.

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

Wells, H.G.

44.

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

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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.