Motivational Quotes

Time

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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 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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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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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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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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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 the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Mark Twain

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo