Motivational Quotes

Time

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buxton, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Proverb, English

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

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.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

10.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

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

Frost, Robert

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

28.

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

Townsend, Robert

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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 wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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