Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

11.

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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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

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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

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

Plutarch

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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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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

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

30.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

33.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

34.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

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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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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

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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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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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.

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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