Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

Berger, John

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

13.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

15.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

16.

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.

17.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

21.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

23.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Mccullers, Carson

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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

29.

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

Field, Franklin

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

Scottish Proverb

32.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

34.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

John F. Kennedy

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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

45.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

46.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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