Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Maria Edgeworth

10.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

13.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

14.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

15.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

18.

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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

21.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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 a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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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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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 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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

30.

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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Scottish Proverb

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French