Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

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

Douglas, Norman

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

16.

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

Pitman

17.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Lakein, Alan

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

21.

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

22.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

23.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

24.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

25.

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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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

27.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Lakein, Alan

29.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

30.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

33.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

34.

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

Wells, H.G.

35.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

36.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

37.

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

38.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

40.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

41.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

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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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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.

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

Bonnie Friedman

48.

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

49.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.