Motivational Quotes

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Pitman

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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 = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan