Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Blake, William

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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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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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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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 is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Greene, Graham

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Paul Klee

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

37.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

41.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Marx, Groucho

48.

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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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max