Motivational Quotes

Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Spencer, Herbert

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

16.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Fleming, Ian

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

21.

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

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

29.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Arthorne, John

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich