Motivational Quotes

Time

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Time

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

10.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

14.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

15.

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

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

18.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

19.

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

Pitman

20.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

23.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

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

25.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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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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.

30.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Otway, Thomas

34.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

35.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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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

41.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

42.

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

43.

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

Murdock, Mike

44.

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

46.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

47.

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

Greene, Graham

48.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

49.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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