Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Simplot, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Scottish Proverb

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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 only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must