Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Brown, John Mason

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Dane, Frank

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

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

16.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

17.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

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

20.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

21.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

22.

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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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

24.

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

Frost, Robert

25.

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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

28.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

46.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Paul Klee