Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

John F. Kennedy

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

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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.

14.

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

Plutarch

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Brown, John Mason

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Taylor, James

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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

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

43.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph