Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

John F. Kennedy

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

10.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

11.

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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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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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

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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.

17.

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

Greene, Graham

18.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

23.

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

Chanel, Coco

24.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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

27.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

28.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

31.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Cowley, Abraham

34.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Blake, William

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

43.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

44.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

45.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

48.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee