Motivational Quotes

Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Fleming, Ian

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Lakein, Alan

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

24.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William