Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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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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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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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

18.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Tracy, Brian

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

27.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

34.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

35.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John