Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

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

Simplot, Jack

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

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

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

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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

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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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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

19.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

35.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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.