Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Marx, Groucho

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

11.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

12.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

13.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Malcolm Forbes

16.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Murdock, Mike

18.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

19.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Scottish Proverb

21.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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

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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

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

25.

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.

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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

27.

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

Jonson, Ben

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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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Schwartz, Delmore

33.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

35.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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.

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

40.

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

41.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

44.

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.

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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis