Motivational Quotes

Time

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Time

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

Berger, John

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

Proverb, French

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

William Shakespeare

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Frost, Robert

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

10.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

11.

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

Wanamaker, John

12.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

13.

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

Marx, Groucho

14.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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

18.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

19.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

20.

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

Otway, Thomas

21.

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.

22.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

25.

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

26.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

27.

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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

30.

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

Douglas, Norman

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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

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

33.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

34.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

35.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

39.

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

Lakein, Alan

40.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Paz, Octavio

42.

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

Field, Franklin

43.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

44.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I