Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Otway, Thomas

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

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

10.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

11.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

12.

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

13.

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

Dane, Frank

14.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Pericles

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

26.

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

Marx, Groucho

27.

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

28.

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 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

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Paz, Octavio

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

William Shakespeare

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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