Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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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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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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 is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Wells, H.G.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham