Motivational Quotes

Time

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Buxton, Charles

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.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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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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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Simplot, Jack

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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