Motivational Quotes

Time

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

- Bergman, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

15.

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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Jef Mallett

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Greene, Graham

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Lakein, Alan

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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.