Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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 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

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

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 that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Marx, Groucho

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

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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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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

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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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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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Brown, John Mason