Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Rosenberg, Harold

Best Quotes about Time

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

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

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

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arthorne, John

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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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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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

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb