Motivational Quotes

Time

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Bixton, Charles

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William