Motivational Quotes

Time

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

- Richards, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, English

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Buxton, Charles

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.

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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

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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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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

19.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

20.

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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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

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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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Marx, Groucho

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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 discovered truth.

Seneca

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

32.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ovid

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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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.