Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

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 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

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Berger, John

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Orben, Robert

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

John F. Kennedy

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Paul Klee

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Rohn, Jim

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Tracy, Brian

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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