Motivational Quotes

Time

So little time and so little to do.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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

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.

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

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

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

John F. Kennedy

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bixton, Charles

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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 is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick