Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

18.

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

Plutarch

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

Scottish Proverb

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

26.

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

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Dickens, Charles