Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

10.

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

11.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

12.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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

16.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

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

Bixton, Charles

18.

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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

20.

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

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Jef Mallett

24.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

You love what you find time to do.

26.

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

Brown, John Mason

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

32.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

34.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

41.

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

42.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Pitman

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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

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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.