Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Proverb, English

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Lakein, Alan

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Wilde, Oscar

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

13.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Arthorne, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wanamaker, John

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

34.

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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Paul Klee

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.