Motivational Quotes

Time

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

- Updegraff, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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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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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

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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

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

Pitman

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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Orben, Robert

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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