Motivational Quotes

Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about 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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Greene, Graham

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Plutarch

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

Pitman

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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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 is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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 ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Townsend, Robert

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.