Motivational Quotes

Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Dane, Frank

10.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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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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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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

24.

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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

38.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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 as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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