Motivational Quotes

Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

- Foote, Shelby

Best Quotes about Time

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Bixton, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

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

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

17.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

18.

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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

22.

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Proverb, Polish

25.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

26.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Murdock, Mike

31.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Blake, William

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

35.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal