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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

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.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Marx, Groucho

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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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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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, 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.

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

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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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