Motivational Quotes

Time

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

- Proverb, Polish

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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.

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

Wells, H.G.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Taylor, James

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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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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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Pitman

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Marx, Groucho

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Proverb, French

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Tracy, Brian

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite