Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

- Harper, Lucille S.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buxton, Charles

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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.

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

10.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

11.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

12.

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.

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

Douglas, Norman

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Malcolm Forbes

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bible

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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.

32.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Lakein, Alan

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Levenson, Samuel

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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