Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Spencer, Herbert

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Wanamaker, John

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Plutarch

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

John F. Kennedy

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack