Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

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

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

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

John F. Kennedy

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

31.

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

Plutarch

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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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

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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