Motivational Quotes

Time

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Time

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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.

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Murdock, Mike

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Plutarch

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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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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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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