Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Churchill, Winston

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

Paul Klee

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

Arthorne, John

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

10.

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

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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.

13.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

14.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

24.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

25.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

26.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

29.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

31.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

32.

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

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

John F. Kennedy

37.

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

Murdock, Mike

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

41.

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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Frost, Robert

45.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

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

50.

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

Bixton, Charles