Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Time

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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.

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

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

Berger, John

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

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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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.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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 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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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

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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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 cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Arthorne, John

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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 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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von