Motivational Quotes

Time

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Proverb, English

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

Paul Klee

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

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Mark Twain

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Arthorne, John

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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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Pitman

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Taylor, James

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

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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

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic