Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Buxton, Charles

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Otway, Thomas

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Orben, Robert

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Book, William Frederick

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

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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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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

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley