Motivational Quotes

Time

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Time

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Rosenberg, Harold

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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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.

Howe, John

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paul Klee

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Blake, William

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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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, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.