Motivational Quotes

Time

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Time

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

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

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

William Shakespeare

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Simplot, Jack

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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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 wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Proverb, French

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Cowley, Abraham

41.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pericles