Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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.

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

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

Berger, John

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

10.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

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

13.

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.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

You love what you find time to do.

17.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

26.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

28.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

45.

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

Lakein, Alan

46.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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