Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

10.

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.

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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