Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

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

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Wanamaker, John

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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

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

Berger, John

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Book, William Frederick

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

42.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles