Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Frost, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Jef Mallett

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

Paul Klee

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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