Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Greene, Graham

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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 glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

19.

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.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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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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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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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 an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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 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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare