Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Scottish Proverb

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

William Shakespeare

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

10.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

11.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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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

16.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Arthorne, John

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton