Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Douglas Adams

Best Quotes about Time

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Bible

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

William Shakespeare

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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 is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Dickens, Charles

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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 is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho