Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Proverb, French

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

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Pitman

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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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Ovid

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Bixton, Charles

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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

28.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.