Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

William Shakespeare

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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 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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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

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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 = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Chanel, Coco

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

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Buxton, Charles

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

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Plutarch

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.