Motivational Quotes

Time

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Time

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

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

10.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

16.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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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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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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

31.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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

44.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben