Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Gissing, George Robert

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

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

Maria Edgeworth

12.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

13.

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

Dickens, Charles

14.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

15.

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

16.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

18.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

Berger, John

20.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

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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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

24.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

25.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

26.

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

Bixton, Charles

28.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

29.

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

30.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

34.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

35.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

39.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

40.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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.

43.

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.

44.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

45.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Arthorne, John

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.