Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Simplot, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Plutarch

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Kennedy, John F.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

10.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Bonnie Friedman

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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

42.

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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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

John F. Kennedy

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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