Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Douglas, Norman

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Jef Mallett

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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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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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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Pitman

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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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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

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