Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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 rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Simplot, Jack

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Ovid

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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 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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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Arthorne, John

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor