Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Douglas Adams

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Frost, Robert

11.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Marx, Groucho

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Ovid

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hodgson, Ralph

28.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

33.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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