Motivational Quotes

Time

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

John F. Kennedy

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Marx, Groucho

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

11.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

19.

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

20.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

25.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

27.

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

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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

37.

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

Mark Twain

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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