Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Spencer, Herbert

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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.

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

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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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

29.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

41.

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.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

46.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.