Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Brown, John Mason

Best Quotes about Time

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Gissing, George Robert

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

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

Mark Twain

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

Orben, Robert

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Simplot, Jack

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Ovid

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Townsend, Robert

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Wells, H.G.

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

William Shakespeare

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul