Motivational Quotes

Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

- Sutton, William

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

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

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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.

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English