Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Douglas, Norman

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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 is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.