Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bixton, Charles

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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.

11.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

12.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

17.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

19.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

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

Orben, Robert

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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

25.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Taylor, James

28.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Pitman

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Plutarch

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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.