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

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.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Douglas, Norman

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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

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