Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Time

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Simplot, Jack

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lakein, Alan

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis