Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Zappa, Frank

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Book, William Frederick

10.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

14.

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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

17.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

18.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

19.

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

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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 is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

31.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

39.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

46.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Plutarch

49.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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