Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Time

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Paul Klee

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

You love what you find time to do.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

11.

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

Buxton, Charles

12.

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 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

14.

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

Spencer, Herbert

15.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

16.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

17.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

18.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

20.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

21.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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

23.

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

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

27.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

28.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

29.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

30.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

31.

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

Gissing, George Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Murdock, Mike

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

36.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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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

42.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

43.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

46.

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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

48.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

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

Proverb, French

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.