Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

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

Douglas, Norman

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

10.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

11.

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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

15.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

25.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

34.

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

Proverb, English

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

Pitman

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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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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.