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

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

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

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

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

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

Berger, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

13.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Mark Twain

16.

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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

18.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

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

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Jef Mallett

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb