Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Time

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Jef Mallett

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

11.

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

Bonnie Friedman

12.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Pitman

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

27.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

30.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

40.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

44.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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.

49.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert