Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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

Taylor, James

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

10.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

17.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

18.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

19.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

20.

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

21.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

23.

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.

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

27.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

29.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

34.

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

Douglas, Norman

35.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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