Motivational Quotes

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Time

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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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.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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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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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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