Motivational Quotes

Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Kennedy, John F.

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Paul Klee

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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