Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Time

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

Otway, Thomas

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Douglas, Norman

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pericles

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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.

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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 is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya