Motivational Quotes

Time

Time discovered truth.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Time

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Otway, Thomas

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Greene, Graham

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

16.

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

17.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

Scottish Proverb

24.

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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Jef Mallett

28.

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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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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

31.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

32.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

35.

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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

41.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

48.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Plutarch

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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.