Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Time

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

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

Buxton, Charles

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

18.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

Bible

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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.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert