Motivational Quotes

Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Ovid

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.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Bixton, Charles

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Wanamaker, John

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

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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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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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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pitman

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Paul Klee

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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