Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, English

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

11.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

12.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

13.

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

14.

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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

18.

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

19.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

20.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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

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

Bergman, Jack

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

27.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

28.

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

Jef Mallett

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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

31.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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

Scottish Proverb

34.

You love what you find time to do.

35.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Lakein, Alan

42.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

43.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Greene, Graham

45.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Spencer, Herbert

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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