Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bergman, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

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

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

10.

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

Dane, Frank

11.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

12.

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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Fleming, Ian

18.

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

19.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

23.

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

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

25.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Douglas, Norman

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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

Plutarch

39.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

47.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Spencer, Herbert

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Beecher, Henry Ward