Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Frost, Robert

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

10.

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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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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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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'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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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Arthorne, John

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hodgson, Ralph

35.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

36.

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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Berger, John