Motivational Quotes

Time

Time discovered truth.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Time

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

10.

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

11.

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

Jonson, Ben

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

15.

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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

25.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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You love what you find time to do.

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

33.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

34.

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

Frost, Robert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

40.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

44.

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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

48.

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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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