Motivational Quotes

Time

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berger, John

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

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

21.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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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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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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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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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 cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Pericles

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