Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Arthorne, John

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Frost, Robert

10.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

11.

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

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

14.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Fleming, Ian

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

25.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

27.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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

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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 is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

32.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

33.

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

34.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

35.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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

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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

38.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Taylor, James

41.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

43.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

44.

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

Book, William Frederick

45.

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

Bonnie Friedman

46.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

47.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

48.

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 are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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