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

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Rosenberg, Harold

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

11.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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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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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.

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

17.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

18.

You love what you find time to do.

19.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pitman

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

Lakein, Alan

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

25.

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 is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

27.

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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

31.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

34.

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

Proverb, Polish

35.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

36.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

37.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

39.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

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