Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

12.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Arthorne, John

14.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

15.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Proverb, Polish

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

20.

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

Berger, John

21.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

22.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

23.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

24.

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

25.

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

Scottish Proverb

26.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

27.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

30.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

31.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

34.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

35.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

36.

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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

38.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

39.

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.

40.

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

Buxton, Charles

41.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

42.

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

Zappa, Frank

43.

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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

45.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

47.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

48.

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

Plutarch

49.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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