Motivational Quotes

Time

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

11.

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

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

17.

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.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

23.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

24.

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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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

28.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bible

34.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

35.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

43.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch