Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Paul Klee

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Book, William Frederick

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

John F. Kennedy

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

10.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

11.

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

Bible

12.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Soon enough is well enough.