Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Time

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, 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

11.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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.

44.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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.