Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Arthorne, John

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Book, William Frederick

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Jef Mallett

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Paul Klee

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Pitman

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.