Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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.

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Blake, William

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

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Fleming, Ian