Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Jonson, Ben

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Kennedy, John F.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

12.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

13.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

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

15.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

16.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

17.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

18.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

19.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

Book, William Frederick

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

26.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

35.

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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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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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

40.

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.

41.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

44.

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

45.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

46.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

47.

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

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan