Motivational Quotes

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.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Hodgson, Ralph

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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You love what you find time to do.

15.

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

Greene, Graham

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

18.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, English

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

42.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.