Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gissing, George Robert

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

10.

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

Proverb, French

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

15.

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.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

22.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

33.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

35.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Murdock, Mike

43.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

44.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

45.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Townsend, Robert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb