Motivational Quotes

Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

John F. Kennedy

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Pitman

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

Lakein, Alan

10.

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.

11.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

12.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

13.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

15.

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

Frost, Robert

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

22.

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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

27.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

29.

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

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Malcolm Forbes

31.

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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

38.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

39.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Marx, Groucho

47.

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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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