Motivational Quotes

Time

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

- Simplot, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Arthorne, John

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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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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Orben, Robert

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Berger, John

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

46.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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

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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.