Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about 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

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

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

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, French

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Scottish Proverb

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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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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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Baltasar Gracian