Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Townsend, Robert

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Brown, John Mason

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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

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

18.

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

19.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Proverb, English

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

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Proverb, Polish

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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