Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schwartz, Delmore

Best Quotes about Time

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

Paul Klee

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

12.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

16.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Orben, Robert

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Bible

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.