Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

11.

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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hodgson, Ralph

14.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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

21.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

27.

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

Blake, William

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

29.

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

30.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

31.

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

Levenson, Samuel

32.

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.

33.

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

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

Bergman, Jack

35.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

40.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

42.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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

44.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Otway, Thomas

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Chesterfield, Lord