Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Wells, H.G.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

31.

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

Fleming, Ian

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

39.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

42.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!