Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Bible

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

11.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

21.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

33.

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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare