Motivational Quotes

Time

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

- Updegraff, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Levenson, Samuel

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

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

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

Wells, H.G.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Townsend, Robert

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

10.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

11.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Mccullers, Carson

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Bible

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

25.

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.

26.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

39.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

44.

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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David