Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Otway, Thomas

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Bixton, Charles

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Murdock, Mike

10.

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

11.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

12.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

15.

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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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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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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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

19.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

21.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

22.

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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

25.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

26.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

28.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

29.

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 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

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bonnie Friedman

33.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Lakein, Alan

35.

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

Dane, Frank

36.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

37.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

38.

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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

45.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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