Motivational Quotes

Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

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

12.

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

Levenson, Samuel

13.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

14.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

15.

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

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

17.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

19.

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 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

21.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

25.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

26.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

27.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

29.

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.

30.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

32.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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.

34.

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

35.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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

39.

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

Berger, John

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

44.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

45.

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

46.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time