Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Buxton, Charles

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Pitman

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

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

Ovid

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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 realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Proverb, Polish

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Proverb, French

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Paul Klee

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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.

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.