Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the only critic without ambition.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Time

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Scottish Proverb

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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 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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Otway, Thomas

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Dane, Frank

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

Ovid

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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