Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Pitman

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

Bonnie Friedman

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Simplot, Jack

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Buxton, Charles

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

14.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Greene, Graham

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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 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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Marx, Groucho

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Douglas, Norman

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas