Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You love what you find time to do.

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

Murdock, Mike

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Maria Edgeworth

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

11.

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

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Greene, Graham

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Proverb, French

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

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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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace