Motivational Quotes

Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

10.

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

Jonson, Ben

11.

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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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

15.

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

Levenson, Samuel

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

20.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

21.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

22.

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

23.

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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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

25.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

26.

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

Buxton, Charles

27.

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

Townsend, Robert

28.

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

29.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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 is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Murdock, Mike

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

45.

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

Pitman

46.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

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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

49.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.