Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Paul Klee

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

John F. Kennedy

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Book, William Frederick

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare