Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Townsend, Robert

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Scottish Proverb

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Cowley, Abraham

10.

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

11.

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

Baltasar Gracian

12.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Simplot, Jack

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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.

16.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

18.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

21.

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.

22.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

27.

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

Ovid

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

33.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

34.

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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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

39.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

45.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

46.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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