Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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.

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

10.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

11.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

12.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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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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 realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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

29.

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

Pitman

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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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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

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

Proverb, Polish

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Ovid

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

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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