Motivational Quotes

Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Time

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Mark Twain

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

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

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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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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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

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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 single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Taylor, James

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