Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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.

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

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

11.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 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 not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

36.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

37.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.