Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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.

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Ovid

10.

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

Townsend, Robert

11.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

12.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

14.

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

15.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, Polish

29.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Taylor, James

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

45.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Plutarch

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cowley, Abraham