Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm Forbes

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

10.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

12.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Buxton, Charles

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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

19.

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

24.

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

25.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

29.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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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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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

36.

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 glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

41.

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

Proverb, Polish

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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