Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Frost, Robert

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Paul Klee

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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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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Taylor, James

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

18.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

22.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, 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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You love what you find time to do.

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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.

40.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Blake, William

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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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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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.