Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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

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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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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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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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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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Darwin, Charles R.

19.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Plutarch