Motivational Quotes

Time

He that rises late must trot all day.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Plutarch

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Rohn, Jim

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Paul Klee

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Pitman

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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 best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Murdock, Mike

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Bonnie Friedman