Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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

11.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Fleming, Ian

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

38.

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

Arthorne, John

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.