Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

Wells, H.G.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

18.

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 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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Arthorne, John

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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.

26.

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

Pitman

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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maria Edgeworth

32.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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

34.

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

35.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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