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

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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

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.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

15.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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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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; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Mark Twain

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Taylor, James

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, French

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Brown, John Mason

39.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bible

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.