Motivational Quotes

Time

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Time

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

10.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

12.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

18.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

22.

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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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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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

25.

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

Cowley, Abraham

26.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

27.

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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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

29.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

32.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

33.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

34.

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

Buxton, Charles

35.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

39.

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

40.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

41.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

42.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

43.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

45.

You love what you find time to do.

46.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

48.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

49.

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

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.