Motivational Quotes

Time

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

You love what you find time to do.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Paz, Octavio

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Ovid