Motivational Quotes

Time

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

- Kakascik, Karen

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

10.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

12.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

21.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

25.

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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

31.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Brown, John Mason

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.