Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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

Proverb, English

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, John Mason

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

11.

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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Cowley, Abraham

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Chanel, Coco

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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You love what you find time to do.