Motivational Quotes

Time

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Time

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

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bixton, Charles

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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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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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

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 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 the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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.