Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Bergman, Jack

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, French

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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Pericles

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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.