Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Churchill, Winston

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

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

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

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

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

10.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

11.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

12.

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

Bergman, Jack

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

14.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

21.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

22.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

27.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Arthorne, John

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

35.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

39.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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.

43.

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

44.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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