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

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

Book, William Frederick

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Chanel, Coco

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Plutarch

10.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

11.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Paul Klee

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

19.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, French

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

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

23.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

28.

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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Taylor, James

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Paz, Octavio

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

39.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

40.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer