Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schwartz, Delmore

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Simplot, Jack

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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'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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Orben, Robert

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham