Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

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

Fleming, Ian

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

10.

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

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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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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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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

16.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buxton, Charles

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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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

24.

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.

25.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Scottish Proverb

29.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

31.

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

Simplot, Jack

32.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Greene, Graham

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

Taylor, James

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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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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

42.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Douglas, Norman

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time