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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

10.

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

11.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

14.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

18.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

21.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

25.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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

27.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

28.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

29.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

30.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

33.

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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

35.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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 years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Taylor, James

46.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Pitman

49.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.