Motivational Quotes

Time

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

- Paul Klee

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Wells, H.G.

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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

Pitman

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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 that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.