Motivational Quotes

Time

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marx, Groucho

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Zappa, Frank

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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 wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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.

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace