Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Douglas, Norman

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Simplot, Jack

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

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You love what you find time to do.

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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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

43.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

William Shakespeare

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

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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