Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Time

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

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Levenson, Samuel

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Pitman

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Frost, Robert

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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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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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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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