Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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

Orben, Robert

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

10.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

12.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

14.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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

16.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Buxton, Charles

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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

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, Polish

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

26.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Lakein, Alan

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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'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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

35.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

You love what you find time to do.

42.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne