Motivational Quotes

Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Brown, John Mason

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'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

You love what you find time to do.

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pitman

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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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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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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

18.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

31.

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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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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.