Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the only critic without ambition.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Time

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

11.

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

Bible

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Book, William Frederick

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

29.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pitman

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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 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

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.