Motivational Quotes

Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bonnie Friedman

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Buxton, Charles

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Otway, Thomas

34.

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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Douglas, Norman

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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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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

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

Paul Klee

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Greene, Graham

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