Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kennedy, John F.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Douglas, Norman

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Marx, Groucho

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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.

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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

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

Fleming, Ian

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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

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Brisbane, Arthur

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett