Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Frost, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Berger, John

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

10.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

11.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

18.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

20.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

21.

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

22.

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

Buxton, Charles

23.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

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

Orben, Robert

26.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

29.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

32.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

33.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

34.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

35.

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

Mccullers, Carson

36.

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

Paz, Octavio

37.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bible

39.

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

Lakein, Alan

40.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

Bonnie Friedman

43.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

48.

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

49.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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