Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Time

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Frost, Robert

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Otway, Thomas

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Paz, Octavio

18.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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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

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

31.

You love what you find time to do.

32.

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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

42.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, English

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James