Motivational Quotes

Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

13.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Churchill, Winston

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Greene, Graham

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Dane, Frank

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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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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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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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David