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

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

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

Paz, Octavio

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pitman

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

Proverb, English

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

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

John F. Kennedy

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chanel, Coco

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

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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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 time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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