Motivational Quotes

Time

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Bible

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

Scottish Proverb

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Proverb, English

10.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

14.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

19.

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

20.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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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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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

24.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

25.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

26.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

35.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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

40.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

41.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wells, H.G.

45.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

46.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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 is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich