Motivational Quotes

Time

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

- Bixton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Maria Edgeworth

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

10.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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

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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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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

28.

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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

40.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.