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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Dickens, Charles

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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 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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Bonnie Friedman

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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