Motivational Quotes

Time

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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Best Quotes about Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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

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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Paul Klee

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Cowley, Abraham

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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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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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

25.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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You love what you find time to do.

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Plutarch

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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

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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