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 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.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Marx, Groucho

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Greene, Graham

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Tracy, Brian

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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