Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Jonson, Ben

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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

Field, Franklin

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

10.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

11.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

12.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

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

14.

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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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

16.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

17.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

18.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

Cowley, Abraham

21.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

23.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

26.

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

Scottish Proverb

27.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

28.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

34.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Orben, Robert

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

43.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

45.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.