Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Levenson, Samuel

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

11.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

12.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

13.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Gissing, George Robert

19.

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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

21.

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

Frost, Robert

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

24.

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

Chanel, Coco

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

26.

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

Taylor, James

27.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

28.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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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.

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

40.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

41.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

43.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

45.

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

Berger, John

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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