Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Jef Mallett

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Tracy, Brian

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Proverb, Polish

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Jonson, Ben

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Pitman

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