Motivational Quotes

Time

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

- Twells, Henry

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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 cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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.