Motivational Quotes

Time

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

Mark Twain

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

21.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Taylor, James

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Tracy, Brian

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Huxley, Thomas H.