Motivational Quotes

Time

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Time

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Malcolm Forbes

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Orben, Robert

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

William Shakespeare

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy