Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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

Proverb, French

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

42.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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.