Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rohn, Jim

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

11.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

12.

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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

21.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

25.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

27.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

28.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

34.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Frost, Robert

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John