Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Paz, Octavio

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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

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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

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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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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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 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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

27.

You love what you find time to do.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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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

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Maria Edgeworth

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther