Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

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.

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

14.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Paul Klee

17.

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

Malcolm Forbes

18.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

19.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

20.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

26.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

27.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

40.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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.

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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

49.

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

Jef Mallett

50.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar