Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

- Carl Sandburg

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Bible

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Proverb, Polish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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

18.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

40.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Maria Edgeworth