Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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

Blake, William

10.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

15.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Taylor, James

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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

24.

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

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

29.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

39.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

41.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, French

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.