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

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Darwin, Charles R.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

10.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

11.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

12.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

30.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Chanel, Coco

32.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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 will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid