Motivational Quotes

Time

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Time

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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.

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

10.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

19.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Scottish Proverb

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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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 king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Paul Klee

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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

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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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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