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

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

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Paul Klee

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mark Twain

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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

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

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Scottish Proverb

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Arthorne, John

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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