Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

John F. Kennedy

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.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Dane, Frank

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Rohn, Jim

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Dickens, Charles

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.