Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Time

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Ovid

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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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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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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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Tracy, Brian

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?