Motivational Quotes

Time

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

- Stephenie Meyer

Best Quotes about Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, French

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

19.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Brown, John Mason

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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 is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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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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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

43.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Taylor, James

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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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