Motivational Quotes

Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

John F. Kennedy

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Arthorne, John

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Frost, Robert

18.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

19.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

22.

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

23.

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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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.

25.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

26.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

28.

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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.