Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Hodgson, Ralph

Best Quotes about Time

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Marx, Groucho

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

13.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

14.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

15.

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

Book, William Frederick

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

17.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

19.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

20.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

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 is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

27.

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

Malcolm Forbes

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Brown, John Mason

30.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

32.

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

Paz, Octavio

33.

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

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

40.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

41.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

42.

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

Plutarch

43.

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

Wells, H.G.

44.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

45.

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

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mark Twain