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

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buxton, Charles

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

John F. Kennedy

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Plutarch

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

Bixton, Charles

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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 years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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 rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.