Motivational Quotes

Time

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Time

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Frost, Robert

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Plutarch

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

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Dickens, Charles

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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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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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed