Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Time

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

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

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Ovid

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

27.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Book, William Frederick

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

35.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

36.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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