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 is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

William Shakespeare

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

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Proverb, Polish

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

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pitman

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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

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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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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.