Motivational Quotes

Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Jonson, Ben

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.

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

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Taylor, James

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

13.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

15.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

16.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

John F. Kennedy

19.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

22.

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

23.

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

Brown, John Mason

24.

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

25.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

26.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

27.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

29.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

30.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

32.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

33.

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.

34.

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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Book, William Frederick

40.

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

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

44.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

45.

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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

47.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

49.

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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike