Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Jef Mallett

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

15.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

16.

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

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

20.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

21.

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

22.

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

John F. Kennedy

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

25.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

26.

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

Marx, Groucho

27.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

29.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

30.

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 present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

32.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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

34.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

35.

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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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

39.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

40.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Mark Twain

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

44.

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

Ovid

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

49.

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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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