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

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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.

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

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Plutarch

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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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.