Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

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

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Mark Twain

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Buxton, Charles

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French