Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

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

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Pitman

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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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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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Levenson, Samuel

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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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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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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Tracy, Brian

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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