Motivational Quotes

Time

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

- Qubein, Nido

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Malcolm Forbes

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

10.

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

Bixton, Charles

11.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

14.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

15.

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

Plutarch

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

23.

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

Pitman

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

28.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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 most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Paul Klee

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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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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 is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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