Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Halifax, Edward F.

You love what you find time to do.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Otway, Thomas

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Orben, Robert

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

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

16.

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

Townsend, Robert

17.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Bergman, Jack

19.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

20.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Proverb, French

22.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

23.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

25.

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

26.

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

Jef Mallett

27.

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

28.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

29.

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.

30.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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

33.

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

Bible

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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

39.

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

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Levenson, Samuel

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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.

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

Scottish Proverb

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Brown, John Mason