Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

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

Ovid

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Proverb, English

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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 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

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo