Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Berger, John

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

10.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

11.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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

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

Ovid

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

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

Proverb, Polish

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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 rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

23.

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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

25.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Plutarch

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, English

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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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

44.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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